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Do you feel a longing for the Fin du Siecle? Then you should visit the Musée Gustave Moreau in Paris. The former residence of the Symbolist painter is situated in a steep alleyway in Montmartre. The fantastic scenes, images painted as though in an opium-induced intoxication, are hung closely together. Only 31 miles outside of Paris is the small city of Milly-la-Foret. Jean Tinguely's huge accessible sculpture Le Cyclop-a 300-ton, 74-foot-high steel behemoth that Niki de Saint-Phalle covered in glittering mirrored mosaic stones-rises up in a forest here. The former residence of Jean Cocteau has been converted into a museum. The property with its large garden, appropriately situated next to the Château de la Bonde, not only houses the drawings of the multiple talent as well as Cocteau portraits by Man Ray, Picasso, and Warhol; huge shiny metal palms, roebuck sculptures, and African chairs also testify to Cocteau's very individual decorating style. Vive la Decadence!
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