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Heather Stimmler | Monday, September 2, 2019 
Renovations, closures, reopenings, and other recent Paris museum news, including the question of the season: "How do I get into the Louvre?"
Heather Stimmler | Saturday, August 31, 2019 
The entrance to the museum on the Place Denfert-Rocherau, 14th.
"We hope to inspire visitors to think about the stakes behind these combats, which have singular resonance today." - SYLVIE ZAIDMAN, MUSEUM DIRECTOR
Heather Stimmler | Wednesday, August 21, 2019 
A century ago there were over a hundred farms in and around Paris producing fruits and vegetables for the city's markets. Today, aside from community gardens, there are only a handful of working farms in the immediate suburbs of Paris. One of them is La Ferme Ouverte, located at the end of metro line 13 in Saint Denis.
Heather Stimmler | Sunday, August 11, 2019 
Despite its expensive facelift with a fancy canopy, the 1970s-era Forum des Halles shopping mall isn’t the ideal place to shop in Paris unless you’re looking for international chain stores. But there are two exceptions to the rule: Sept-Cinq and the aptly-named L'Exception.
Heather Stimmler | Wednesday, July 17, 2019 There’s so much confusion over the laws about drinking alcohol in France, from the legal drinking age to where and when you can consume alcohol in public in Paris, that I thought it was time to lay it all out for you.
First, the legal drinking age for ALL alcoholic beverages in France is 18.
Heather Stimmler | Monday, July 15, 2019 
If you haven’t yet been to Ground Control, imagine an enormous, disaffected hangar behind Paris' Gare de Lyon train station transformed into a community space for locals, families, visitors, the “libres et curieux”, where you can eat, shop, celebrate, learn and make art, all in a spirit of sustainability, solidarity, cultural exchange, and camaraderie.
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