Today I and a friend went to a festival in Paris called Paris Nuit Blanche. In English that means 'white night' therefore it's 'night in the daylight'. Since in Taiwan at this moment we celebrate the moon festival for its brightness and form, it is quite reasonable that here they chose this day to light up the city into the night for some artistic and commercial activities.
THis year the areas that join this venue include the quartier chatelet-marais, Latin et Buttes-chaumont. Metro line 11 and 14 operate all night. We only get to go around in the Chatelet-Marais region and we get to see one artistic work at the Notre Dame.
When I got home around 11 pm there were still quite a lot of people taking metro. But I see some of them looked weary, like me, since it is quite difficult to be still active at this hour when normally you are prepared to go to bed. But like my friend said, it's a reason for people to go out in the night to party and to get closer to art. Indeed besides the huge screen hanging in front of the hotel de ville, other works are shown on the screens 'hidden behind the trees or outside of a window of a second floor room. I am generally happy with this program only wish they have more venders for warm food and perhaps passing out sweet wines to passer-bys. But that would be more like Christmas festivity.
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