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Celestine Bohen

Celestine Bohen is a Paris-based journalist who writes a regular column for the International New York Times and teaches journalism at Sciences-Po.

Airplanes that never flew and a parade of early automobiles now inhabit the grand exhibit hall of the Arts et Métiers museum, once the home of the medieval Saint-Martin-des-Champs monastery.

The Best Little Museum You Never Visited in Paris

The Museum of Arts and Crafts is a trove of cunning inventions