"A sun shower bathes the Rue de Rivoli in light the color of pale champagne. The Marais—a fable of a neighborhood's rise and fall and rise—was chic in the 17th century, declined into slum in the 19th, then turned newly chic in the late 20th."
—From "Bohemian Rhapsody," August 2003, National Geographic magazine
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