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		<title>How to get from Gare du Nord to Gare de Lyon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At Gare du Nord descend one level from the main platform level (there are multiple escalators) and follow the signs for RER Line D. This is at the opposite end of the station to the Eurostar platforms. (The RER is the suburban Paris overground train network &#8211; although this journey is all underground.) Usually the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A visit to the Immigration Museum (Cité Nationale de l&#8217;Histoire de l&#8217;Immigration)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The new Paris Immigration Museum, the Cité Nationale de l&#8217;Histoire de l&#8217;Immigration, proved so controversial that no senior politician could be found to open it. Perhaps that&#8217;s because, for all of its messages of tolerance and acceptance of difference, it presents what are likely to be, for many, unpalatable truths. The visitor climbs the stairs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fragments of old Paris in the 4th arrondissement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Paris you&#8217;ll find almost always in every direction flavours of the Belle Epoque. You&#8217;ll never have to look much further to find the earlier 18th century, or indeed the 17th, but pieces of really old Paris &#8211; the medieval origins, are thin on the ground. Yet if you look hard around the 4th arrondissement, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exhibition Review &#8211; Chant du Monde, L’art de l’Iran safavide (the art of Safavid Iran) at the Louvre</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s something very pure and fundamental about the art of Safavid Iran, which is given perhaps its fullest-yet exploration in an extensive exhibition at the Louvre. This comes, I&#8217;d suggest, from its primary art form &#8211; the one from which the others drew their inspiration and idiom, which was small-scale paintings on paper. There&#8217;s nothing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mona Lisa versus the Lady and the Unicorn Tapestries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What makes a great work of art? There are many answers to that question, but mine is simple: &#8220;depth&#8221;. There must be many meanings, many emotions, many possible reactions contained within it, and each time you look at it, you should be able to find something new. On that count, if you compare the two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exhibition Review: Annette Messager at the Pompidou Centre</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before you decide to visit the Annette Messager retrospective now at the Pompidou, you should be warned: you won&#8217;t have seen such a menacing collection of stuffed animals since you woke in your nursery at age three after a nightmare. At the heart, physical and conceptual, of this exhibition is &#8220;Articulated-disarticulated&#8221;, from 2001-2002. These are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Musee National du Moyen Age Exhibition: Trésors de la Peste noire (Treasures of the Black Death)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Impressions of the life of Jews in medieval Europe often circulate around thoughts of persecution, or expulsion, or worse: it was a community under pressure. And on one level, an exhibition at the Museum of the Middle Ages in Paris reflects that. It contains items buried in the ancient quarter of Erfurt, in what is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://myparisyourparis.com/?p=11</link>
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		<title>Le Nemours: a favourite café</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve got to try really hard to find a poor café in Paris; there&#8217;s a few rather dodgy joints around the Gare du Nord, and in the depths of Les Halles, but even the clear tourist traps along the Left Bank serve decent food at only moderately inflated prices. So favourites are more a matter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chevaliers en Pays D&#8217;Islam (Knights in the Arab World) at the Institut du Monde Arabe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Weapons and beauty are not two words commonly linked together, but no other adjective could be applied to a ceremonial 18th-century Mughal mace, rightly highlighted in The Knights of the Arab World exhibition in a case of its own. There&#8217;s all of the wealth of that great empire in its rich gold inlay, but there&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://myparisyourparis.com/?p=8</link>
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		<title>A visit to the Museum of Decorative Arts (Musée des Arts Décoratifs)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;decorative arts&#8221; &#8211; that sounds somehow frivolous, insubstantial, light-weight &#8211; utterly unlike the grandeur of the Louvre around the corner, where the much-celebrated (mostly male) figures of the French arts are displayed in all of their glory. Perhaps that why the new Museum of Decorative Arts has been left, in large part, to the [...]]]></description>
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