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Paris has long been the first stop on the cultivated traveler's grand tour, the place where the world comes to learn sophistication and style. Local pride has kept the city surprisingly free of generic superstores, and the city can still transport the visitor to an alternate universe of artisan shops and timeless French cafes. While the Left Bank hot spots of the past haven't entirely lost their charm, savvy travelers know to seek out the livelier, lesser-known corners where the Picassos of today drink, draw and dream. A plethora of recently revitalized neighborhoods -- from the hopping nightlife of Bastille to the artsy Canal St. Martin to the diverse, up-and-coming Belleville -- provide room for the visitor to find his very own moveable feast.
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Paris is the center of many major newspapers and periodicals, as well as all the major French radio and television stations. Elegant stores and hotels, lavish nightclubs, theaters, and gourmet restaurants help make tourism the biggest industry in Paris. Other leading industries manufacture luxury articles, high-fashion clothing, perfume, and jewelry. Heavy industry, notably automobile manufacture, is located in the suburbs. About one quarter of the French labor force is concentrated in the Paris area.
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Paris has many nicknames, but its most famous is "The City of Lights" (La Ville-lumière), a name it owes both to its fame as a centre of education and ideas and its early adoption of street lighting. Paris since the early 20th century has ... been known in Parisian slang as Paname (
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Song Phanekham felt so impassioned about the Paris Métro that he has assembled this collection of historical tidbits, ruminations, and photos as an unofficial tribute. (As of 12/02, most pages are in French only.)
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NEW YORK, April 5 /PRNewswire/ -- L'Oreal Paris announces the signing of an exclusive worldwide contract with actress Eva Longoria as spokesperson for the company and its brands. Her first L'Oreal commercial for VIVE (pronounced "Veev") haircare will debut this spring.
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Paris is of course one of the great fashion centers of the Western world, up there with New York, London, and Milan, making it a great place to do clothes shopping. For the high end, the area around Place Vendome is known for its jewelery shops as e.g. Cartier. Rue de Rivoli from Louvre to Place de la Concorde has a number of sophisticated shops. And of course you shouldn't miss Gallerie Lafayette and Le Printemps (both in the 2nd close to the Operahouse) and BHV which you can find in the Le Marais district in the 4th near the Hotel de Ville. Owing to the its history of as a mostly Jewish neighborhood most of the shops in much of Le Marais are open on Sundays.
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