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    20 great things to do in ParisSoak up Sartre, Picasso and Dior, then kick back at the Moulin

    Rouge

    By Time Out editors and Sulakshana Gupter

    1. Picnic under the Eiffel Tower

    Don't just buy the keyring, visiting Paris without taking a trip to the top of theEiffel Toweris

    unthinkable. Built for the 1889 World Fair and centenary of the French Revolution, the 300-

    metre (985 feet) tower is a radical feat of engineering. At its top, your line of vision may

    stretch for over 65km (40 miles) on a good day. To elevate your style, visit the Jules

    Verne restaurant run by Alain Ducasse, whose scallops are legendary. If the weather is

    warm, take a baguette, pt and a bottle of red wine to the grassy area beneath the tower for

    an impromptu picnic. This is best done in the evening, when the tower is illuminated for five

    minutes every hour by 20,000 light bulbs.

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    2. Get lost at the Louvre

    You could spend all weekend in Paris and only see theLouvre. With around 35,000 works of

    art on display, from Greek and Roman antiquities to Egyptian objects and Renaissance

    paintings, the museum covers a vast spectrum of civilisation. It's an unmissable attraction,

    for which it's worth braving gallery fatigue. After entering through the light-filled atrium of IM

    Pei's glass pyramid, you'll find the art is housed in three wings: Denon, Sully and Richelieu.

    Must-sees include the Marly horses, Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People, Rubens's

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    paintings for the Medici cycle, Vermeer's Lacemaker and, of course, Da Vinci's Mona Lisa

    if you can bear the crowds.

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    3. Join the craze for concept stores

    Pariss concept stores can help even the most jaded style hunter fall in love with shopping

    again. Diverse, select and authoritatively fashionable, the seduce in a way that department

    stores can only dream of. Through clever presentation and seductive editing of consumer

    goods, they make things sparkle with a hypnoticje ne sais quoi.

    The capitals concept kings have very different personalities. Theres cosmopolitan,

    metropolitan, glamorous but down-with-the-kidsColette; bobo I-probably-care-more-about-

    my-home-than-my-wardrobeMerci; sophisticated, avant-garde LEclaireur. But what they all

    have in common is a product range which is entertainingly diverse and seductively scarce.

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    4. Slurp an ice-cream at Notre-Dame

    Paris's Gothic masterpiece is theCathdrale Notre-Dame. Constructed between 1163 and

    1334, but damaged during the French Revolution, the cathedral has been restored to

    magnificent effect. Its twin towers achieve a perfect balance, the rose window is beautiful

    and the west faade's three doorways with rows of saints and sculpted tympanums are

    inspired. Climb from the north tower to the south to appreciate the masonry, and get a close-

    up view of the gallery of chimeras, the fantastic birds and beasts gazing over the balustrade.Afterwards, cross the road to Berthillon, where you can sample the most celebrated ice-

    cream in town. Its reputation has been growing since 1954 thanks to natural ingredients,

    lashings of cream and a host of delicious flavours.

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    5. Lose yourself in the legendary jazz scene

    Paris is jazz central, with a rich host of venues at which to see live gigs. Sprinkled across the

    left bank are traditional clubs like the Caveau de la Huchette a medieval cellar that has

    been a mainstay on the jazz scene for 60 years. Across the river, in Les Halles, you'll find the

    legendaryAu Duc des Lombards. This wood-panelled, yellow-walled club is lined with

    posters of some of the greats who have played here: Kenny Burrell, Johnny Griffin, Herbie

    Hancock and Wayne Shorter. As well as international stars, it brings in plenty of local talent.

    For cutting-edge jazz, visit theNew Morning, which embraces chanson, blues and world

    music.

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    6. Take an Impressionists masterclass

    At theMuse d'Orsay, you can discover the factors that shaped Impressionism: the birth of

    the railway, the Barbizon school and the glorious open air. Housed in a former train station,

    designed to coincide with the 1900 Exposition Universelle, the collection is arranged in a

    chronological order, from 1848 to 1914. On the ground floor, you can see The Artist's Studio

    by Courbet and the landscapes of Corot, Daubigny and Millet, forerunners of the

    Impressionists. Here you'll find provocative works such as Manet's Olympia, which shocked

    the art establishment, but paved the way for the liberal paintings of Czanne, Gauguin and

    Van Gogh in the upper galleries. After sampling the works, get some fresh air and a picture

    of the city by stepping onto the coffered roof.

    Musee de l'Orangerie is a Monet showcase, displaying eight, tapestry-

    sizedNymphas (water lillies) paintings housed in two plain oval rooms.

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    7. Max out the plastic in the Marais

    The Marais's reputation for great shopping is rising thanks to the young designers who have

    set up their atelier galleries in its golden triangle, delineated by rues Charlot, Poitou and

    Turenne. Among the best are former Lacoste Creative DirectorChristophe Lemaires self-

    named boutique, which stocks his own-label high-tech Japanese textiles; the fashion editors

    favourite, Iro, where designers Laurent and Arik Bitton sell what they call their 'basic deluxe'

    range skinny knits, skinny jeans and the 'perfecto' mini leather jacket; and Laeticia Ivanezsinstallation space/boutique Les Prairies de Paris, which gives over the whole of the ground

    floor to art shows, gigs and happenings, while downstairs showcases the disco-glam

    separates and cute childrens collection.

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    8. Dig some bones

    'Stop! This is the empire of death!' This isn't the door policy at Paris's premier heavy metal

    club, but the inscription above the entrance ofLes Catacombes. Its origins lie in the

    eighteenth-century Parisians' response to an accommodation crisis in the cemeteries. In the

    era of Revolutionary terror, they dug deep into miles of unused subterranean passages that

    had existed since Roman times and transferred the remains of six million people to the

    catacombs. The bones of Marat and Robespierre and their fellow citizens are all here. Bear

    in mind that you have to climb down a 20 metre (66 foot) staircase to reach the mass of

    bones. It's an extraordinary sight, but can be disturbing, especially it you have AC/DC on

    your iPod.

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    Another worthwhile dead end isCimetire du Pre-Lachaise, Paris's most famous cemetery,

    which provides a home to illustrious corpses galore, from Molire to Morrison.

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    9. Dine on only the finest French cuisine

    As you would expect, there is a multitude of French restaurants in Paris, but only a handful

    are truly exceptional: LArdoise, one of the city's finest modern bistros, attracts gourmets

    eager to sample Pierre Jay's reliably delicious cooking; Grgory Lemarchand honed his craft

    with Jamie Oliver in London before opening his loft-style bistro, Frenchie, next to the market

    street rue Montorgueil; Chef Sylvain Sendra played to a full house every night at his little

    bistro Le Temps au Temps near the Bastille before moving to the larger space,Itinraires,

    near Notre Dame; Jean-Luc Andr is as inspired a decorator as he is a cook, and the quirky

    charm of his dining room, Ptrelle, has made it popular with fashion designers and film stars;

    and last, but, most-definitely not least, where do Michelin inspectors go on their day off?

    To Spring, where young American chef Daniel Rose has wowed the critics since opening thissleek 16-seat bistro a few years ago.

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    10. Remember 'Life is a cabaret, my friend'

    The year the Eiffel Tower raised its final girders (1889), the Moulin Rougewas raising

    something of its own: skirts. These days, cabaret is an all-evening extravaganza. Male

    dancers and magicians compliment the foxy foxtrot; the dancing is perfectly synchronised,

    the costumes beautiful and the whole caboodle perfectly respectable.

    Toulouse-Lautrec posters, glittery lampposts and fake trees lend tacky charm to theMoulin

    Rouge, while 60 Doriss dancers cavort with faultless synchronisation. Costumes are

    flamboyant and the entracte acts funny. On stageatLe Lido, 60 Bluebell Girls and a set of

    hunky dancers slink around, shaking their bodies with sequinned panache in breathtaking

    scenes. For a special treat, opt for the brand new 'behind the scenes' tour. Paradis Latin is

    the most authentic of the cabarets, not only because it's family-run, but also because the

    clientele is mostly French.

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    11. Corner cutting-edge cultural centres

    Paris's brilliant cultural centres will encourage you to look with fresh eyes. The trendsetter is

    theCentre Pompidou. Designed by Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano, its glass envelope

    with coloured service pipes holds a modern art museum, library, performance space and

    repertory cinema. More recently, Jean Nouvel has built the Muse du Quai Branly to house a

    300,000-strong collection of Arts Premiers from Africa, Oceania, Asia and the Americas. With

    adventurous displays, a prime riverside site near theEiffel Tower, lush gardens and an open-

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    air amphitheatre, it transports you into a series of new worlds. The museums are among the

    venues that open for free on the pan-European, biannual Night of Museums

    (www.nuitdesmusees.culture.fr).

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    12. Have a hammam at the Paris Mosque

    For an authentic hamman experience, visit Hammam de la Grande Mosque, a beautiful

    1920s building, with a stunning green-and-white tiled square minaret inspired by the

    Alhambra. You can enjoy a steam session at a number of different temperatures in the

    exquisitely tiled interior of the domed hamman. Bear in mind that swimwear is compulsory,

    though your fellow Parisiennes may happily lounge around in bikinis. After you have sweated

    away some of your impurities, get scrubbed up with a gommage (an exfoliation), and then a

    massage. Afterwards, you can relax at a mosaic table beneath green foliage in the pretty

    courtyard of the mosque's caf and even smoke sheesha. The hamman has become very

    popular with the locals, so avoid the weekends because they might be particularly busy.

    13. Stroll around St-Sulpice and the Luxembourg

    For a slice of civilized Paris, visit the quarter south of St-Germain-des-Prs, between Odon

    and Luxembourg. Nestling amid the historic buildings, fashion boutiques, patisseries and

    antiquarian bookshops is theEglise St-Sulpice. Construction of the beautiful church began in

    1646, but took 120 years and six architects to complete: the Italianate faade was designed

    by Jean-Baptiste Servandoni, but he died before the second tower could be finished, leaving

    it five metres shorter than the other. Art buffs should check out the three murals by Delacroix

    in the first chapel. Close by is the Jardin du Luxembourg, which offers both a stylish place to

    relax and a playground for the children. They can enjoy the traditional merry-go-round, rideponies and sail toy boats across the lake.

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    14. Visit the literary landmarks of Paris

    If you're a book lover, then you'll be in heaven. This is the resting place of many literary

    ghosts, whose great works you'll find lining the shelves of atmospheric bookshops and cafs.

    To the south, in the Cimetire du Montparnasse, you can take an atmospheric stroll amid the

    headstones of famous writers: the philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir

    are buried side by side, and Baudelaire, Beckett and Guy de Maupassant can also be found

    beneath the trees. Meanwhile, in St-Germain-des-Prs on the Left Bank, there are cafs

    where you can follow in their footsteps, including Caf de Flore, Les Deux Magots and Les

    Editeurs. The shopsLa Hune andGalignani offer a wide selection of French literature, and

    the super cool Librairie 7L proffers a cosmopolitan range of photography titles.

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    15. House hunt with Le Corbusier

    You can literally tick off some of Corb's five points of Modern architecture as you walk

    around this stunning house and garden designed for a Swiss art collector in 1923: the Villa

    La Roche. Is the house elevated by pilotis? Check. Does it have a free plan that you can

    easily move around? Check. Are there ocean-liner, horizontal strip windows? Check.

    Alongside the architecture and built-in furniture, you can also see all the drawings, plans,

    notes, objects and artworks that he bequeathed to theFondation Le Corbusier(the Villas La

    Roche and Jeanneret) on his death in 1965. The collection offers a fascinating insight into

    the life of this visionary Modern architect.

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    16. Get yourself invited to a secret dinner party

    A cross between a private dinner party and a restaurant, clandestine restaurants are

    springing up around Paris. There is no more insider lunch address in Paris than Lunch in theLoft (www.lunchintheloft.com, 50 per head): the exact location is revealed only once you

    sign up for the party for eight at the home of Claude Cabri. An artist who loves to cook,

    Claude widened her sphere of guests a year ago when she started emailing food bloggers

    under the mysterious name of Miss Lunch.

    A more professional atmosphere can be found at the Hidden Kitchen (www.hkmenus.com,

    80 per head) in the Haussmannian apartment of young American chef Brad Perkins and his

    partner Laura Adrian. At their dinner parties, 12 guests sit down to a candlelit ten-course

    meal accompanied by four carefully chosen wines. The quality of the food at the Hidden

    Kitchen is astounding, and true gastronomes should not miss it, but youll probably have

    more fun chez Claude.

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    17. Rummage at the flea markets

    Paris flea markets are full of curiosities, from stained glass windows to Philippe Starck pieces

    and Eames chairs and even three-metre clock faces. Key stops on the market trail are the

    sprawling March aux Puces de Clignancourt, the quiet, tree-linedMarch aux Puces de

    Vanves and the contemporary design market Les Puces du Design. One of the few

    remaining flea markets where you can uncover gems at bargain prices on bric--brac stalls is

    theMarch d'Aligre. It's where all the serious dealers go when on the hunt for original

    antiquities from across the country. But watch out for overpriced books and kitchenware. At

    the adjacent March Beauvau, you can stock up on fresh fruit and veg, groceries and meats

    to prepare a rustic French meal.

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    18. Catch a film at La Cinmathque Franaise

    Take a stroll to the leafy fringes of Parc de Bercy, where you'll discover a Frank Gehry

    building housing the newCinmathque Franaise. The institute assumes a place at the

    heart of French film culture: founded in 1936 to conserve films, it was a meeting place for

    Nouvelle Vague (New Wave) directors of the 1950s and 60s such as Franois Truffaut,

    Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette and Eric Rohmer. Following its relocation to Bercy, it now

    boasts four screens, a bookshop, a restaurant, exhibition space and the Muse du Cinma.

    In the spirit of its visionary founder, Henry Langlois, the institute hosts major retrospectives,

    cult movies, classics and experimental cinema, along with Q&A sessions for all budding film

    directors and aficionados of French cinema.

    See all cinemas in Paris

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    19. Worship the Sun King at Versailles

    Centuries of makeovers have made Versailles the most sumptuously clad chteau in theworld, so it needs a full day to do it justice. The palace we know today was largely designed

    under the reign of Louis XIV: the two splendid wings of the Cour des Ministres and the

    Chapelle Royale so pleased the Sun King that he moved his court to Versailles, then rarely

    set foot in Paris. In the late eighteenth-century, Louis XV added the sumptuous Opra Royal,

    used for concerts by the Centre de Musique Baroque. Summer weekends are the best time

    to see the garden, when the fountains play to music. Indoors, the highlight is the Hall of

    Mirrors; composed of 357 of them, it's literally dazzling.

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    20. Visit the new star of the art scene

    Described as a 'space for artistic creation',CentQuatre 104occupies a vast 19th-century

    building on the rue d'Aubervilliers, which used to house Paris's municipal undertakers.

    Known as the 'factory of grief', its walls bore witness to the final journey of masses of

    Parisians. Now they conceal the practice of artists who are renewing the creative spirit of

    Montmartre, which was once a popular haunt of modern artists like Picasso, Ezra Pound and

    Getrude Stein. The Memory Room shows black and white footage of events there, while the

    restaurant celebrates the multi-cultural cuisine of the local community and the Atelier le Balto

    is a green space that will be landscaped by resident gardeners each year. Among the artists

    working here in 2009 were Tania Bruguera, who involves migrants in her performances, and

    Anri Sala, who times his films with the weather. The resident artists will change each year

    and show their finished pieces in four annual festivals.

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