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A near-record 670,000 visitors flocked to an exhibition of paintings by French Post-Impressionist Paul Gauguin, which closed Monday in Paris after a three-month stay. “It has been a very high turnout for what was the largest Gauguin exhibition ever staged,” a museum spokeswoman said. The exhibition at the Grand Palais displayed more than 300 of Gauguin’s works, drawn from museums and private collections all over the world. It took four years to assemble.