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(including the green-metal
bouquiniste
stalls lining the banks of the Seine), adorable chil-
dren's wear and toy shops, art and antique dealers, venerable shops selling state-of-the-art
professional cookware, and, of course, gourmet food and wine shops galore.
Artistic Treasures
With an illustrious artistic pedigree - Renoir, Rodin, Picasso, Monet, Manet, Dalí and Van
Gogh are but a few of the masters who lived and worked here over the years - Paris is one
of the great art repositories of the world, harbouring treasures from antiquity onwards. In
addition to big-hitting museums like the incomparable Louvre, the Musée d'Orsay's excep-
tional impressionist collection, and the Centre Pompidou's cache of modern and contempor-
ary art, there are scores of smaller museums housing collections in every imaginable genre,
and a diverse range of venues mounting major exhibitions through to off-beat installations.
