Xiao Yifei and William arrived in Paris slowly. When I arrived at the hotel, Paris was already full of lights, and I had to sigh at the traffic jam in Paris.

Here I want to say that the domestic saying that Paris is not congested with traffic is still the statement of the big media, and it is also said that we should learn from the experience of Paris. This must be wrong, Paris has a traffic jam as well.

The first is that Paris is congenitally deficient. In China, you are accustomed to seeing three-lane and four-lane streets, and when you come to Paris, you can experience what a sheep's gut path is.

The second is to build roads, which are now environmentally friendly, especially in Europe, so Paris wants to expand bicycle lanes and bus lanes, which has led to traffic jams in many places that were not congested.

The third is that, with the exception of a few arterial roads such as the Champs-Élysées, most of the streets in Paris are flanked by a parking strip, which makes the already narrow streets even more tense.

Finally, Paris is an international city as well as a tourist city. Paris's attractions are all in the Old Town, with tourist buses and local cars from different countries constantly plying the cobweb-like streets, and the Louvre is the busiest stretch of road. Therefore, traffic jams are inevitable.

Pay special attention to one of the biggest traffic difficulties in Paris, the famous Arc de Triomphe. Due to the fact that there are 12 divergent avenues around the Arc de Triomphe, the traffic flow is extremely large, and according to French traffic regulations, the car on the right should go first. It's not easy to come up with a car inside the roundabout. This is one of the "dead spots" with the most accidents in the city of Paris, and many foreign drivers will be stuck in it as soon as they arrive, and they can't get out after a few laps.

Xiao Yifei and the others happened to encounter a small peak, which was blocked in several sections. However, this kind of traffic jam is only an occasional short time, and the vehicles waiting behind are still lined up in an orderly manner, each occupying its own way, and there is no drilling at the seam, nor long honking the horn, all waiting patiently.

The next day, William went to visit his classmates in Paris, and Xiao Yifei spent the morning studying translation. After lunch, Xiao Yifei first sorted out his photos and chose some blogs to upload. Then it was studying, and after the dizziness of learning, Xiao Yifei decided to go out for a walk.

The hotel is near the Palais Royal in Paris, which is the first arrondissement anyway, and it is only a few minutes walk away, so Xiao Yifei decided to go there.

He couldn't have imagined that he could find such a peaceful place in the heart of Paris. Walking in the secluded garden, the mist from the fountain was still a little cold, which made Xiao Yifei regain a lot of energy. Before you know it, it's night.

After coming back, Xiao Yifei found out that this inconspicuous royal palace was very famous in history, and now the two inconspicuous places in front of the palace are so famous.

One of them is the Constitutional Council (Conseilconstitutionnel), which is the highest constitutional authority in France. It was established on October 4, 1958 by the French Fifth Republic to ensure that the principles and rules of the Constitution are upheld.

The other is the Consei d'état, about which there are many translations, the Council of State, the French Court of Cassation, the Court of Justice, the French National Senate, the Senate. Xiao Yifei was too lazy to understand this thing.

Not only the two of them, but there are also other government departments here, such as the small door with the French flag and the EU flag on the east side, which is actually the French Ministry of Culture, which is too pitiful. You must know that the small door next to it is the door where Xiao Yi flew out of the royal palace, and these two doors look exactly the same, both of which are the kind of small iron gates that can only pass through two people at the same time.

The most unexpected thing was that the French Red Cross was actually curled up in a small corner at the end of the east side of the Palais Royal.

Xiao Yifei is not good at commenting on these things, but it does not prevent him from looking at the scenery, to be honest, this garden, in addition to being quiet, is only average.

After checking the introduction, he found out that the black and white cement piles in the courtyard, which he thought were to block the entry of cars, turned out to be works of art, with a famous name, called colonnes de Buren. In 1986, the then French Ministry of Culture commissioned Daniel? Daniel Buren built a carving on the Place des Honors on 3,000 square meters in front of the royal palace. So there are these 260 black and white striped Buren columns of different heights. As for the specific meaning, I'm sorry, this thing is like some oil paintings in the space, Xiao Yifei can't understand it, and he can't appreciate it. It's not just Xiao Yifei who can't understand it, but the French can't understand it either. This artwork seems to have caused a huge controversy among the Parisian people. When it comes to controversy, the French love controversy. Now the Eiffel Tower, the symbol of Paris, has just come out of the same controversy. The glass gold font at the entrance of the Louvre was once said by many Parisians to be "the scar on the face of Paris".

Today is the penultimate day of Wilhelm's holiday, and tomorrow he will drive back to Germany. The two of them discussed it and decided to go to see the Three Jewels as originally planned, not the auspicious Three Jewels, but the famous Three Jewels of the Louvre: the Goddess of Victory, the Venus with the Broken Arm and the Mona Lisa.

After breakfast, the two of them walked slowly across the street, got through a passage, and entered Piazza Caruso. That's why they chose this hotel, there are so many places to visit within walking distance.

"Here you have to watch out for those who wander."

Xiao Yifei asked puzzledly, "Why?" ”

Wilhelm whispered in German: "Thief." ”

Shrimp, Xiao Yifei was taken aback.

Before arriving in Paris, after being reminded by William, Xiao Yifei checked the information and learned that Switzerland, where veterans can go home with military rifles, is actually very safe. The real problem with law and order is Paris, which is known as the capital of romance. However, the information he had read only said that there were problems in certain districts in the north-east and north. But this is the first arrondissement, the first arrondissement where the French presidential palace is located, not the third arrondissement where the law and order is poor, and not the 17th and 18th districts in the outer ring, so you also have to consider security here?

Facing Xiao Yifei's question, William said: "In the past, there were only Eastern Europe, but now there are a lot of Xiao A and Xiao Hei, can you not mess up." ”

Xiao Yifei was depressed, Paris was about to fall in rhythm.

"Not only here, but also in Versailles, the Eiffel Tower, Galeries Lafayette and other places to beware of thieves."

Xiao Yifei was dizzy, well, he could not go to Galeries Lafayette to buy things, but Versailles and the Eiffel Tower were also places he really wanted to go. If you do this, you can still have a pleasant trip.

Seeing that Xiao Yifei was a little frightened, William comforted again: "But don't worry, these places are just thieves." As long as you don't go to the areas where the security is poor and you don't go out at night, safety is still guaranteed. Let's go, let's go buy tickets. ”

The two of them came to the glass pyramid, and although it was still early, there were many people in line.

William himself lined up in a line, pointed to another passage where no one was around, and said to Xiao Yifei: "You go there to buy it." ”

"Why?"

"Museum passes are sold there, and I only buy tickets for one day."

Xiao Yifei, who was confused, came to a counter. After inquiry, I learned that the so-called museum pass means that many museums in Paris can be used as a ticket, as long as it is valid, you can enter and exit these museums countless times.

Xiao Yifei inquired about the price again, 42 euros for two days, 46 euros for 4 days, and 69 euros for 6 days.

This amount of money is a drizzle for Xiao Yifei now, so he asked himself for a 6-day pass, looked back at William, who was still in the team, and bought a 2-day joint ticket.

William was wrung out of the procession, and the two men entered the Louvre with their tickets. William also watched the auction and knew that Xiao Yifei was rich now, so he didn't be polite to him.

Soon Xiao Yifei was completely convinced that thieves were really rampant here, and the Louvre itself posted a big reminder sign to remind tourists in various languages: beware of thieves. It seems that theft is a serious problem.

When renting the explainer, Xiao Yifei was disgusted again, Nima, the language of the explainer is not Chinese. If you have Japanese, you don't speak it, you don't even have Korean, but you don't have Chinese. Then you opened a Chinese website and said that you want to attract Chinese tourists.

After inquiry, the staff told him an explanation that made him vomit blood: the Louvre has a Chinese docent, 200 euros an hour.

Gotcha, you know what it means, you don't have to spend money to hire a docent if you have a docent, this is forcing you to use their docent, this is a forced consumption, right? There is no consumer association, I want to complain.

Well, if you join a group, it's okay to raise dozens of euros per person and hire a docent, but now Xiao Yifei is alone, although this money is a small amount of money for him, but it is a bad time. Anyway, he has good English, and his German is okay, so he will listen to English first.

And that's not all, William highly recommended that he buy Ben Louvre's book. Well, it's just that I didn't see this collection, and I went out for more than a hundred euros. Looking at the book in my hand, 17 euros, a super thick one, or a very good quality color printing, it is still quite a deal. I hope the others are worthy of his money.

Next, William first took Xiao Yifei straight to Sanbao. When passing through the large exhibition hall, Xiao Yifei found acquaintances, Napoleon crowning the Empress, and Napoleon's oil painting of the Alps, these two Xiao Yifei are in the space, but it is obvious that this is genuine, and his one is a fake. Of course, the other 4 authentic pairs of the Alps have been mentioned before, and there is also an authentic coronation picture, which is in the Palace of Versailles.

It should be mentioned here that the large, long oil painting tube that Xiao Yifei found in the Louis Latour family collection contained a coronation picture of a fake. The painting was so big, more than 6 meters high and 9 meters long, bigger than the room, I couldn't find such a big place to store it, I don't know who it was, so I folded it, and then rolled it up and put it in that special oil painting tube.

Although he didn't appreciate oil paintings, Xiao Yifei still knew that it was harmful to roll up and store oil paintings for a long time, not to mention that the painting was folded once, so he opened the painting completely and covered it on the pedestal of the large stone tablet of Osiris, so that it could be restored first.

Before he could take a closer look at the "acquaintance", he was dragged by William into a nearby hall.

Hey, there are people who predate them. At first glance, it turned out to be one of the three treasures, the "Mona Lisa" arrived.