Not long ago, I took a visiting friend to see the Arc de Triomphe. We purchased advance tickets to go up and see the panoramic view from the top, but arrived to find that terrace closed. None of the friendly machine gun-toting soldiers who were guarding the monument could explain why (it wasn’t a strike or a holiday), so we shrugged it off and found som…
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