Paris dresses up its windows for the season
Fantastically staged displays bring the holiday spirit - and shoppers - to the city's storied department stores
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Paris
CROUCHED precariously amid cascades of fishing line, behind a drum kit dusted with iridescent artificial snow, Jean-Claude Dehix ministered patiently to a rebellious marionette, oblivious to the businessman on the other side of the plate glass window who was taking a last, lazy drag of his morning cigarette.
"Who's the boss here, chérie?" Mr Dehix scowled, as he repeatedly adjusted a filament connecting a cam-driven mechanism in the ceiling of the display to the wrist of his Lilliputian charge, who appeared determined to strum away at a toy guitar to her own unscripted rhythm.
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