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Paris Hotel tips
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Hotel Louvre Rivoli from136 €
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Villa Mazarin from154 €
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France Louvre from109 €
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Paris Leisure tips
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Seine River Cruise and Illuminations of Paris
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A Panoramic Tour of Paris with Eiffel Tower Visit
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Reports Paris
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A new and colourful art installation is taking over Paris's Grand Palais -- a forest of coloured circles balanced on thin black-and-white pillars, designed by French artist Daniel Buren. It's all part of this year's "Monument..
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First study the colour, then the nose, the structure and taste: as for any good wine, tasting chocolate is both a treat and a serious art, requiring regular practice to fine-tune the senses. And one exclusive Paris chocolate club ..
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In 2010, the Gastronomic Meal of the French made the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list. Certain aspects of the formal meal date from the 17C, such as the marriage of food and wine, the sequence of dishes and the fine art of..
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Michelin launches the beta version of its future Michelin Restaurants website in France
F - Boulogne-Billancourt
The Michelin Restaurants website (http://restaurant.michelin.fr) is a multi-criteria search engine that allows Web users to choose a restaurant corresponding to their desires and budgets. Michelin wants to involve Web users and re..
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The Saint James Paris: a touch of madness
43 Avenue Bugeaud F - 75116 Paris
On the one hand, Bambi Sloan: the famed Franco-American interior designer with a flair for the surreal. On the other, the Saint James Paris: a lavish neoclassic mansion in Paris’s 16th arrondissement. When the first gets her hands..
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Half a dozen people huddle elbow-to-elbow in a glass cabin the size of a broom cupboard. It is close to freezing inside but all wear broad grins. Hardly surprising since this is a caviar-tasting class.
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Eurostar prepares for wifi debut
F - paris
Eurostar has confirmed that it is to roll out a new infotainment system and wifi connectivity across its fleet of trains.
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The turret clock in Paris’s Hôtel de Ville, a masterpiece of 19th century horology, is kept in perfect condition by a dynamic young clockmaker.
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An Introduction to New Zealand Wines
F - Paris
From 9th September to 23rd October New Zealand will be holding the Rugby World Cup for the second time in its history. Whether you’re making the journey to watch your team or staying at home in front of your TV, why not make the m..
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Wish you were here: Paris's suburban badlands
F - Saint Denis
France Paris's suburbs have become known around the world for all the wrong reasons -- with news reports associating them with rioting and antisocial behaviour, or painting them as immigration flashpoints. But now some residents a..
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They're calling it the "Love Giant." Two beef patties, on a heart-shaped bun that's supposed to send burger lovers' hearts aflutter.
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Fifty years of Beef-burgers made by the butcher Yves-Marie Le Bourdonnec
F - Asnières-sur-Seine
France is celebrating its 50th anniversary of Beef-burgers this year. This famous dish came into existence due to an appeal made by the French army in 1961. The idea was to provide the French soldiers with an essential ration of p..
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A small selection of Extra Brut Champagnes for Christmas
10 place de la Concorde F - 75008 Paris
Clear cut, crisp and distinct, unsweetened champagne lends itself well to all kinds of festive occasions. David Biraud and Antoine Pétrus, the two famous sommeliers from Paris’ Hôtel Crillon agreed to sample and comment on a small..
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A Quest for Exceptional Coffee
52, rue de l’Hôtel-de-Ville F - Paris
Historian and adventurer Hippolyte Courty has a quest to find the planet’s rarest and most delicious coffees and his aim is to open a window on a largely unknown world.
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The presentation of relics at Notre-Dame de Paris
Parvis Notre-Dame F - 75001 Paris
Oddly enough, the immense majority of Parisians are totally unaware that Christ’s crown of thorns, considered to be Christianity’s second most important relic after the Holy Shroud of Turin, is presented in Notre-Dame cathedral on..
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Reopening of the Jardin des Plantes greenhouses (Paris)
rue cuvier F - Paris
After six years of work, the doors of the historical greenhouses of the Jardin des Plantes (Botanical Gardens) are reopening. From a dry desert to a hot and humid jungle, four huge caskets of glass and metal put biodiversity and i..
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Montmartre: classic sites and hidden treasures (video)
F - 75018 Paris
Montmartre, the village where Renoir, Suzanne Valadon, Utrillo and Picasso all lived and painted, is the Paris of postcards. Join us for a stroll which includes the ‘classic must-see’ sites, but also reveals a hidden side of the n..
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In this festive season, tourists from all over the world are looking forward to strolling up the Champs-Elysées transformed for the occasion with thousands of fairground-like light bulbs bedecking its trees...
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Paris: Louis XVI's expiatory chapel
F - Paris
Off the beaten tourist tracks, Louis XVI's expiatory chapel is a little neoclassical masterpiece. January, the month of Louis XVI's death, is an ideal time to visit this peaceful haven, a stone's throw from the hectic Saint-Lazare..
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La Défense, where the first tower block was built in 1966, has aged somewhat today. To strengthen its international competitiveness, it was becoming essential to infuse new life into it. That challenge will be met by 2015 with the..
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