Road to Elsewhere, Excerpt #23*: Sacré-Cœur? Sa·cré bleu!

The hot-to-trot abbess and King Henry IV, the sleepiest cultural institution in the world, and more tales of adventure on the Paris Metro.

AS I WANDERED AROUND, UNDERGROUND, IN PARIS, I curated a list of cherished Metro stops. 

The Louvre-Rivoli stop was nearby on the #1 line, just east of the The World’s Most Exhausting Museum. It now displays antiquities that can be a quick alternative to the overbearing collection of objets upstairs. Can anybody stand being in that maze of hallways and i…