Jean-Eric Vergne stormed to a dominant third victory of Season Four in what was a chaotic and thrilling battle around the streets of Paris.
Vergne started the race from pole position after dominating qualifying with a clinical performance in both the group qualifying stages and in the Super Pole shootout, edging out championship rival Sam Bird for the top spot.
When the lights went out, Vergne held onto the lead into and was followed by Bird, Andre Lotterer, Maro Engel and Lucas di Grassi, while Antonio Felix da Costa dropped back through the pack to seventh after starting in fifth.
Following heavy contact between Tom Blomqvist, Nico Prost and Mitch Evans, a full course yellow was quickly deployed while Formula E returnee Ma Qing Hua stalled on the grid from 17th for NIO.
After the green flag waved, the field settled into a rhythm but the battle for the lead did not calm down, with Vergne, Bird and Lotterer all covered by less than one second out on track.
The top three stayed in formation for the first half of the race, with the pit window opening on lap 24, with Vergne leading the majority of the field in for Formula E's mandatory mid-race car switch while a number of drivers, fronted by di Grassi, stayed out on track to perform the overcut strategy.
After switching cars, Vergne held onto what was now the net lead of the race while extending his advantage over Bird by one second after the British DS Virgin Racing driver had a slow pit stop, pushing him into the clutches of Andre Lotterer with the German driver overtaking Bird with an aggressive diving move on lap 35.
With Bird slowly depleting his amount of usable energy, di Grassi overtook the championship contender after benefiting from the overcut strategy which meant that he had more usable energy for the second half of the race due to the lower mileage on his second Audi Sport Abt Schaeffler machine.
As the laps wound down, Vergne maintained his lead out in front while Lotterer was determined to hold off a hard-charging di Grassi who was looking to secure a third consecutive second-placed podium finish.
After di Grassi failed to find a way around Lotterer in the first half of the final lap, it appeared that Techeetah's rear gunner had done enough to secure a second 1-2 finish for the Chinese team, however, when Lotterer ran out of usable energy in the final few corners, he quickly became as good as a sitting duck, being passed by di Grassi before getting rear-ended by Bird.
As Vergne took the chequered flag to take a dominant win in front of his home crowd, di Grassi salvaged a second place finish after a disappointing qualifying performance while Bird trundled across the finishing line in third place with three wheels attached to his car.
Amidst the carnage behind, Engel scored his best Formula E finish for Venturi with fourth place while Season Two champion Sebastien Buemi finished in fifth place for Renault e.dams.
Lotterer finished in sixth despite running out of energy and being struck by Bird while Daniel Abt finished in seventh place in the second Audi car.
Felix Rosenqvist finished in eighth for Mahindra Racing while Oliver Turvey was ninth for NIO and Jose Maria Lopez completed the top 10 for Dragon Racing.
Outside of the top ten, Alex Lynn had a difficult race on the streets of Paris finishing in 14th after starting in 15th while Mitch Evans failed to finish in the points for Jaguar Racing, finishing down in 16th place.
The Paris ePrix saw three drivers fail to finish, with Nelson Piquet Jr, Blomqvist and da Costa failing to see the chequered flag.
By claiming a third race win of the 2017/18 season, Vergne has extended his lead in the Drivers' Championship to 31 points over Bird with the British racer failing to emulate his performances of the Rome ePrix earlier in April. In the Teams' Championship, Techeetah continue to lead by 55 points over DS Virgin Racing.