Billy Name, the Warhol star who actually lived in Andy’s Factory, was in a choice spot to snap pictures of the daily routine of the “superstars” who lounged about taking drugs, making silkscreens, and witnessing Valerie Solanas shoot the silver-haired Pop Tart. Name actually created the silver look of the Factory, unrolling miles of aluminum foil and turning the place into a museum-disco-shrine.

You can see it all beginning 1 November at Gallerie L’Univerre, 12 rue Thorigny, 75003 in photographs by Billy Name and others, and gaze at Andy’s 1960s friends and the works of his buddies including Bibbe Hansen, Ultra Violet, Brigid Berlin, Allan Midgette, Ivy Nicholson among dozens of others. (I worked briefly for Andy at Interview in 1983 but met him only twice).

In addition to the photo and art exhibition, you can check out the documentary Factory People by writer/director Catherine O’Sullivan Shor at the Grand Rex cinema 16 November (But it’s for “Paris Photo” VIPs only!). Here you’ll hear (and see) Andy’s monotone drone, watch Edie Sedgwick prancing about and drag queen Holly Woodlawn making faces. “Billy lived in the Silver Factory from 1963-1968, which is the story period for our film,” says Patrick Nagle, the film’s producer. “It ends with the shooting by Valerie shortly after the move to Union Square into the White Factory.” The film is a three-hour television extravaganza and 90-minute theatrical piece, but the Rex show will include only segments of the work-in-progress in a kick-off for “Paris Photo,” an exhibition at the Carousel du Louvre that begins 14 November and runs through 18 November.