Champs-Élysées: The Planet’s Runway, Battlefield, and Luxury Mausoleum All at Once
PARIS — The Avenue des Champs-Élysées is closed again, this time for the Olympic marathon, next week for a climate protest, the week after for a film shoot in which it is blown to CGI smithereens. If you stand long enough on the world’s most self-conscious boulevard, you can watch the planet rehearse its own…