Introduction - Lingeries de Paris
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Introduction
The Grands-Boulevards in Paris are a couple of miles long and wide enough to accommodate six cars, if it were not for the owners parking anywhere. By and large, they start Place de la République and follow the curve of the River Seine, in the Northern portion of Paris, parallel at half a mile away distance or so. Then they reach La Porte St Denis, push forward towards the Opera and finish at Place de la Madeleine, close to the Maxim’s restaurant, the Place de la Concorde, which in turn marks the beginning of the Champs-Elysées.
The Grand Boulevards are the ideal place to find a cinema, a restaurant, a theatre, a clothing shop or simply to take a leisure stroll. Incidentally, if you emerge from the Opera metro station at 7 o-clock on a Saturday evening or at 2 o’clock on a Sunday afternoon, you will often see Parisians of all ages waiting for the elected of their hearts and reaching for each other’s hand as soon as they meet.
So there we were, on that Sunday afternoon, ten of us, students at La Sorbonne University, in literature and history. It was early November, in 1975, we were all in our second year, full of illusions, spending twenty hours in the university, with a side job for most of us. Two thirds of the first year students had been eliminated and there was a feeling of elation at the beginning of that second year, which had started only a few weeks before. There were no couples in our little group, or if there were, they were discreet because nobody knew, apparently.
The time of the meeting had been 2 o’clock and we had gradually emerged from the metro onto the Place de l’Opera, the guys shaking hands and kissing the ladies four times on their cheeks. Our little gang was composed of an unequal split: three boys and seven girls. French female students were usually engrossed in their studies and devoted most of their time in ingurgitating knowledge, in anticipation of the day of the quarterly exam when quotations, dates, facts and names should be spread like jam on a toast, if possible without too many controversial ideas, so that the teacher would not feel offended in his dignity.