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		<title>A Top Resto&#8217;s New Wine Bar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The team behind the much-lauded restaurant Septime (which featured again this year on the World&#8217;s Best Restaurant list) has opened a wine shop-cum-wine bar just around the corner from its main address in the 11th arrondissement. Pop into the charming Septime La Cave to pick up a bottle from their vast selection from not just France, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Nazimodo&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s a nickname I saw on Twitter for Dominique Venner, the right-wing writer who committed suicide in Notre Dame. In the modern equivalent of a suicide note, he blogged earlier this week about &#8220;vile&#8221; gay marriage and the invasion of &#8220;Islamists&#8221; in France. Is this an isolated instance? Or is suicide growing from a form of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did These Beads Can-Can on a Montmartre Stage?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve heard of the proverbial woman with a past. Well, these jewelry pieces have a past. A jewelry designer in L.A. made the cuff bracelets from vintage French sequins and beads (among other materials). The person she bought the elements from told her the provenance was decades-old stage costumes from France. I love imagining what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theparisblog.com/did-these-beads-can-can-on-a-montmartre-stage/</link>
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		<title>Spa Treatments from Luxe to Frugal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been a long, long winter, and now that the sun is making timid appearances, you may be interested in gently reintroducing your body to the world with a trip to the spa. For a posh swim and gourmet pastries at a historic palace hotel, book an afternoon of “Gourmandise Sportive” at the Shangri-La (10 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>France&#8217;s Proximity to the Arab World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Americans are not very familiar with Arabs and Muslims, on the whole, and tend to regard them as foreign and possibly threatening. But that is not the case in France. For starters, there are lots of &#8220;Arabs&#8221; in France; ten percent of the population is Muslim, quite a few more than are Protestant (2%). Most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet Alain, the Bouquinist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I see him occasionally on my way home for work when the weather is decent enough for me to ride the Vélib bike home. So I stop and say bonjour. He has a lovely smile, and a soft approach to a hard life that I imagine took years to perfect. One of the stories he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theparisblog.com/meet-alain-the-bouquinist/</link>
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		<title>The Roman Past</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When in Paris, go to Rome. Say what? Well, let me explain. France, like most of Europe, was once occupied a part of the Roman Empire. Though Paris seems thoroughly French today, there&#8217;s one amazing leftover from the time when Julius Caesar&#8217;s army ruled: Les Arènes de Lutèce. It&#8217;s one of my favorite Paris attractions. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Museum Entrance, Late Into the Night</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Complain all you will about the bureaucracy and weather in France. But you have to admit the country does right by its citizens (and visitors) culturally. As a result, the average French person is culturally sophisticated and curious. The latest free treat for the eyes and ears: La Nuit Européenne des Musées. It takes place [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theparisblog.com/free-museum-entrance-late-into-the-night/</link>
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		<title>All That Jazz</title>
		<description><![CDATA[May is a great time in Paris, as it kicks off the free music season. It all begins with the annual Festival Jazz Saint-Germain-des-Prés, a fortnight-plus fiesta of all forms of the art from swing to gypsy to modern (&#8220;cool&#8221;) jazz in an assortment of concerts all over Paris (many of which are free). This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Street-Naming Rights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is the law in France that no street, square, or building may be named after a living person. Mrs, Thatcher having passed away, a UMP – Union pour un Movement Populaire – councillor, Jérôme Dubus, motioned at a Paris municipal meeting that a street or square in Paris should be named after her: Rue or Avenue [...]]]></description>
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