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Paris red-light district closing down

PARIS, FRANCE - DECEMBER 20: The former hostess bar F'exhib is under renovation to reopen its doors on January 2014 as the Lipstick bar, a hipster bar without hostesses nor sexual favors on sale, in Pigalle, Paris red light district, France, on December 20, 2013. Booming property prices are killing off Paris' notorious red-light district of Pigalle as the area morphs into a sanitised but fashionable hangout. The hostess bars of Pigalle are mostly closing down and giving way to chic nightclubs and organic supermarkets. (Photo by Lucas Schifres/Getty Images)

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PARIS, FRANCE - DECEMBER 20: The former hostess bar F'exhib is under renovation to reopen its doors on January 2014 as the Lipstick bar, a hipster bar without hostesses nor sexual favors on sale, in Pigalle, Paris red light district, France, on December 20, 2013. Booming property prices are killing off Paris' notorious red-light district of Pigalle as the area morphs into a sanitised but fashionable hangout. The hostess bars of Pigalle are mostly closing down and giving way to chic nightclubs and organic supermarkets. (Photo by Lucas Schifres/Getty Images)