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Travel Paris Like a Local

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By John von Sothen

* Neighborhood to turn your nose up at: Bastille (home of frat-boy-bar/velvet-rope monstrosities).

* Neighborhood to pretend to turn your nose up at while actually secretly loving: Montmartre.

* Neighborhood to proselytize about without ever actually visiting: Canal St.-Martin.

* Neighborhood to loudly denigrate without ever leaving: Le Marais.

* Famous restaurant a true local wouldn't be caught dead in: Tour d'Argent.

* Dish to pretend you love: andouillette. (It's cold intestines, not the andouille you know from New Orleans.)

* Meal to pretend you hate: cheeseburgers.

* Where to say you shop: Not stores -- say you go to press sales or the showroom of your friend's botique.

* What to complain about: the Voie Georges Pompidou, the roadway running along the Seine that's been closed as part of Paris's war on cars, and the fact that nothing's open on Mondays (only tourists complain that shit's not open on Sundays).

* What to cheer about: the first sun of spring, when the café terraces start bustling and the first flower dresses of the season come into bloom.

* Every bit as good as advertised: the Louvre, and a Paris-versus-Marseilles nighttime soccer match at the Parc des Princes.

* Avoid at all costs: the Champs-Élysées.

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