English speaking person in Paris (France)

Use your personal network. You probably know someone who knows someone who lives in Paris. Take French classes, it's a good way to meet people and they often want to do things. I liked http://www.accord-langues.com and http://www.campuslangues.com. Accord was better but Campus was cheap though the classes were too large (in July), it was still beneficial and I met nice people and it was a good mix of short and long term folks. Craigslist often has personals for people looking to just hang out with someone. Another expatriate http://laurasviequotidienne.blogspot.com, she's in Lille. The http://www.acparis.org/ is also quite social if you're even a little bit religious. I'm also a fan of http://www.davidlebovitz.com/ blog. It's a foodie blog but he mentions lots of Paris goings on.

As I recall the Shakespeare and Company bookstore(s?) in Paris are sort of informal meeting places for English speaking expats, you might try there. The Paris Time Out guide should have event listings on the back pages in English, it used to at least. Also the American Church, it's a good place to start.

Did you check out the usual suspects yet? https://www.couchsurfing.org/n/places/paris-ile-de-france-france http://www.meetup.com/find/?offset=0&psize=32&currentpage=1&allMeetups=true&categories=&keywords=&radius=5&userFreeform=Paris%2C+France&mcId=c1011740&mcName=&sort=default http://www.internations.org/paris-expats

http://profetpotiche.blogspot.com/ a friend wrote about his sabbatical in Paris last year. They spent a lot of time out and about, especially riding bikes to bakeries and museums.

If you're into healthy living, check out Bob's Kitchen and Bob's Juice Bar. Great places to meet English-speaking expats.

You could hang out with other MeFites, if you like that kind of crowd. i also recommend Couchsurfing; the Paris group is very active and has many many different kind of events whether you are into movies, party, food, sports...

The http://parisisinvisible.blogspot.com blog gives a different perspective on the city. You can often find out about events aimed at Anglophones by checking out posters/flyers at the English-language bookstores, like http://www.whsmith.fr/, The Red Wheelbarrow, and others (here's a http://www.venere.com/blog/paris-english-bookstores/. If you like Western art from the Middle Ages to the early 19th century, you can join the http://www.amis-du-louvre.org and get free entry to the museum for a year. Plus, for the Wednesday and Friday evening hours, you can bring a guest along free. The website is entirely in French, but if you go to their office in the gallery below the pyramid (in the direction of the shopping mall area, near the Apple store), you can talk to someone in person, in English. Another advantage is that with the membership card, you don't need to stand in the ticket lines at the Louvre, and you can use the members-only entrance in the passage between the pyramid and the rue de Rivoli, so no lines to get into the museum either. If you like cycling, Memail me and I can point you to my favorite bike routes out of the city and in the surrounding area.

i've also heard the 'american church in paris' that shoesietart linked to above is a great place to meet expats and get acclimated to the city.

Something I have always wanted to do is http://www.pari-roller.com/index.php?p=101. It's a 30km skating loop around Paris on Friday nights. There's also a beginner ride that might be more appropriate, depending on your skill. Apparently they are welcoming to English speakers.