[UPDATE-Oct. 24-25] France Prepares for New Protests as Army Reinforces Police

France on Defense on the eve of another wave of protests On the eve of another wave of protests, which were announced already this weekend, Paris is going into lockdown mode. The Ministry of Culture ordered the closure of the Louvre, the Musée d’Orsay, the Orangerie, and the Picasso National Museum. The international Art Basel Paris fair at the Grand Palais was shut down two days early altogether. Organizers hastily ushered visitors out the door, and Polish-German sculptor Alicia Kwade, to be safe, dismantled her four-meter composition “Elevation of Worlds” at the entrance — so it wouldn’t simply be smashed…