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Carrefour de Buci Review
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Carrefour de Buci 
Neighborhoods / Streets, St-Germain-des-Prés
Fodor's Review:
This colorful crossroads ("carrefour" is French for "intersection") was once a notorious Rive Gauche landmark: during the 18th century it contained a gallows, and during the French Revolution the army used the site to enroll its first volunteers. Many royalists and priests lost their heads here during the bloody course of the Terror. There's certainly nothing sinister about the carrefour today; brightly colored flowers are displayed in the market and devotees of the superb traditional bakery Carton line up for pastries (try their tuiles cookies). Rue de Buci has a good outdoor food market, open Tuesday to Saturday 8-1 and 4-7, and Sunday 9-1.
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