‘Stay Home!’: Tourists Find Themselves in a France Convulsed by Protests
Upon arriving at a blockaded and closed Louvre after a more than 20-hour plane journey from Australia, Anne Boland had advice for tourists planning to visit Paris. "Stay home!" the 73-year-old pensioner told AFP on Monday outside the world's most visited museum, after a weekend of unrest that rocked some of the French capital's most iconic streets and squares. She was one of thousands of visitors scrambling to navigate the City of Light as marches, traffic delays and wafting tear gas snarl the capital's 14-billion-euro ($16-billion) tourism industry.
