What greets you while you enter the Annual Christmas Market on the Tuileries Gardens? Nutcracker Troopers. And earlier than the market opens? The place are they? Hidden, ready to get out within the open. I observed them whereas crossing the gardens on November 18. My eyes fell upon rows of black hats. The trove of Nutcracker Troopers holding horns or standing at consideration had been lined up. Their expressive eyes had been ready for a magic second.
The magic second I later discovered was November 19, 2022, the opening day for the Magic of Christmas market (La Magie de Noël aux Tuileries). The Nutcracker Troopers jogged my memory of the Chinese language Emperor Qin Shi Huang’s funerary Terracotta Military defending the emperor within the afterlife. In actual life, the Nutcracker troopers will stand sentry across the Tuileries Christmas market between November 19, 2022 and January 8, 2023.
Christmas markets in Paris are discovered on the Metropolis of Paris’s web site https://www.paris.fr/evenements/les-marches-de-noels-28871 and on the Paris Official web site of the Conference and Guests Bureau .
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