Too bad your visit to Paris was not as pleasant as it should have been (considering the cost).
I have a cousin living in France now (another exile of the revolution) and he has been very critical of what he has seen.
I think that France, among other European countries, is flirting with PC way too much and that has allowed dangerous people to turn former pleasant places into time bombs.
My cousin thinks that if some drastic political decisions regarding immigration and "tolerance" are not taken, radicals will take advantage of how respectful people are supposed to be of differences and turn every street in europe into a battle field.