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Paris has the White Night event in the autumn and Museum Night in the spring. Both are nocturnal (duh!), both have a sprinkling of culture, and both are free. Get ready for over a hundred special events for the 2009 Museum Night in the city…

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At the beginning of the 19th Century a large number of writers and artists settled in the 9th arrondissement, an area that they dubbed « Little Athens ». The house of portrait painter Ary Scheffer – now the Musée de la Vie Romantique – was visited by the stars of the time such as Chopin, Liszt, Dickens… and writer George Sand, to whom the museum is now partially dedicated.

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