When in Paris, your shopping haul needn’t be limited to fashion -- there are a plethora of affordable delights to be found in the ordinary high street chemist.
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Provocative works by Belgian artist Wim Delvoye are showing in Paris, interspersed among the Louvre’s permanent collection as a quirky treasure hunt.
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Step back in time in one of the city’s tucked away 19th-century shopping arcades.
Les Docks, a fashion and design centre, has turned a riverside strip in the 13th arrondissement into one of the hippest destinations in the French capital.
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French authorities have closed shorelines and forbidden bathing and nautical activities due to dangerously high levels of sea pollution.
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Paris is making waves with a new type of gallery that is blurring the line between art and design.
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