Lovers of France's two great symbols of cultural exception -- its haute cuisine and fine art -- are aghast at plans to open a McDonald's restaurant and McCafe in the Louvre museum next month. "This is the last straw," said one art historian working at the Louvre, who declined to be named. "This is the pinnacle of exhausting consumerism, deficient gastronomy and very unpleasant odours in the context of a museum."
