Carrying around an iBook, an iPhone or iPad has become the essential accessory of a certain kind of bourgeois bohemian.

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For a hipper setting, wander along the bobo (bourgeois bohemian) paradise of the Canal St Martin, a shop- and cafe-lined canal in the trendy 10th arrondissement, which packs out with picnickers and revellers as soon as the sun shines (and well into the night, too).

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Beginning life in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries as modest subdivisions for the working class, these much-coveted neighbourhoods are now home to the city's bourgeois-bohemian, but nevertheless retain an authentic atmosphere that evokes a Paris of days gone by.

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