Don’t build a plaster-of-paris Paris. Don’t ask a color-blind chintz merchant to design the costumes. Don’t let anybody say to Sophia Loren while she bats her glued-on lashes and swells her ...

The Plaster Cast Workshop of the GrandPalaisRmn has molds of more than 6,000 artworks such as the “Venus de Milo” and Alexander the Great’s foot.