Section Of Paris: Rotterdam is a night surprise, or so it was to me, for there it is possible to nightcrawl-you'll need to keep a taxi on the string-in a big way. The Parkzicht is a pleasant dance-cabaret, with an intimate Caveau de Paris that outparises Paris, and the Beursfoyer is another quality place. The Ambassadeur is big and international. The Cascade is definitely smart, a double affair with a big bar-lounge and a dance section with loor show. On a night of Saturday-into-Sunday, it will be jampacked up to 3 A. M. La Habanera and Wiener Grinzing are lesser but lively places.
In Paris, to return to the hub of everything French, the Church of Sacre-Coeur, atop Montmartre, commands a peculiar religious fervor from many earnest Catholics. Here, every night of the year, men come to pray and meditate. Groups from every section of Paris keep vigil in turn and they are locked in for the night. The church looks dark and empty, but the men are in there, praying. A Protestant church with a long religious history is the Temple de FOratoire, revered by all present-day Huguenots. It runs through from rue St-Honore to rue de Puvoli at a point opposite the eastern end of the Louvre.
The Selective Shopper on the Prowl Paris is a shopper's heaven, especially if the shopper is on the distaff side. It is an expensive heaven, in these days, notably excepting perfumes, which are far cheaper in Paris than in America, but the cost doesn't seem to frighten tourists away. Paris est toujours Paris.
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