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Hidden Paris

The Arc de Triomphe,damaged by protesters in December, will remain off-limits during this weekend's Journée du Patrimoine..

Paris monuments shuttered as protests collide with heritage day fun

Visitors take pictures of paintings at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, December 3, 2018. Picture taken December 3, 2018.

Paris' Louvre attracts record visitor numbers with the help of Beyoncé

A carving on a wall shows the 29th reinforcement built by Guillaumot in 1777

The man who saved Paris from sinking

Paving stones mark the outline of the Bastille fortress, on the corner of the Place de la Bastille and the rue Sainte Antoine

La Bastille - medieval symbol of oppression, modern symbol of liberty

Texan artist Monte Laster's studio, La Courneuve

Finding angels on France's problem estates

A fragment of Paris's Monument to the glory of colonial expansion

Paris’s forgotten human zoo

The celebration of Ganesh, Paris

Paris's Tamils thrive despite defeat at home

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton - the American novelist who joined France's WWI effort

At the Moulin Rouge: Two women waltzing

Lifting the veil on Paris's lesbian café society

Victimes des Révolutions, 1909, by Paul Moreau-Vauthier

Truth buried as Paris cemetery sculpture is mistaken for famous wall

Chevalier de la Barre in Montmartre Paris

French free-thinking knight still a controversial figure

Back in the day ... Jo Goldenberg's Deli before it closed down

Golden days are gone, but Paris's Jewish quarter still has rich story to tell

A victim of the 1961 massacre

1961 - Algerians massacred on Paris streets

No time to dawdle - a Parisienne walks past a Hermès shop

A stopwatch, a piece of string and Parisians display their true colours

The cholera epidemic as seen by Le Petit Journal illustrated paper

1832 - The deadly epidemic that helped shape today's Paris

The aftermath of the grenade attack on the Drugstore Saint Germain

Carlos the Jackal's Parisian trail of destruction

Mehdi Ben Barka speaks

Spies, Nazis, gangsters and cops - the mysterious disappearance of Mehdi Ben Barka

Louis-Auguste Blanqui

A revolutionary on the Paris map

A statue at Paris's Cité universitaire

New series on rfienglish.com

RFI reveals hidden Paris

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