The left bank is the centre of Paris's bohemian culture, art scene, and chic shops.
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Forget Sartre’s café or Hemingway’s bar – fresh literary haunts are springing up all over the French capital.
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Weekly Sunday night dinners where people eat, drink and socialize, all for a suggested donation of 25 euros.
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Join in the dawn to dusk art marathon known as “the white night”.
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