At the Palace of Versailles, you can take a selfie in the Hall of Mirrors and pretend you rented it on Airbnb. At the Louvre, La Joconde can be seen without queuing for three hours. The Covid has emptied Paris of its foreign tourists. As the end of the pandemic is not for tomorrow, the fall should make it possible to continue visiting these sites, usually victims of overtourism, in exceptional conditions. The only consolation in these troubled and masked times. The Picasso Museum, nestled in the Marais district within the magnificent Hôtel Salé (completed in 1660), is thus also worth rediscovering.
We walked through its doors one morning like a gentleman and not a sheep visitor. That is to say alone, grilling politeness to two German tourists (the Germans occupy Paris a little), trampling the rules of gallantry to experience this intoxication of the first lunar pedestrian. Little by little other curious people joined us and, among them, families with children. Normal, exposure
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