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PARIS — Could tourists soon find sheep baaing at the Eiffel Tower and ewes bleating by Notre Dame?

Maybe. After all, City Hall this week replaced gas-guzzling lawn mowers with sheep at the city’s gardens.

Four woolly ewes from an island off the Brittany coast now munch the Paris Archives’ grass, but the number of sites could be expanded in and around Paris come October, officials say.

The ovine operation follows two goats’ 2012 success in mowing the lawn at the Tuileries, central Paris’ grand 17th-century gardens.

The fact is the four-legged, non-union workers contentedly munch day and night, oblivious to France’s 35-hour workweek.

“Animal lawn mowers are ecological, as no gasoline is required, and cost half the price of a machine,” said Paris Farm Director Marcel Collet.

“And they’re so cute.”

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