Saint-Michel, boulevard 102
métro station 84
Saint-Sulpice church 219
salad dressings, quality of 192–3
see also chèvre chaud
salmon, bad sign if on menu 196
Salon de l’Agriculture 91
Salon des Refusés 230
sani-broyeurs 272–3, 277
sanisettes 41–2
Sarkozy, Nicolas, at Salon de l’Agriculture 91
see also Bruni
Savoyards, Drouot sales rooms 253–4
Scherrer, Jean-Louis (fashion designer) 204
Schifres, Alain (journalist) 29
seats, competing for, métro 94–95
Sébastopol, siege of 83
‘siege game’ 174, 177
see also rat
Seine
drinking water from 54–5
floods 59–64, 74
Paris Plage(s) 22, 41, 56–9
Pont Neuf métro station 87
Right Bank autoroute 122
rue de, art galleries 250–2
tunnel, and 1910 flood 74
Sentier 7
Sévigné, Marquise de 32, 100
sewers, guided tour 65
sex
industry 155–73
shops 160
with vegetables 176
see also smiling
Sex in the City 128
Sexodrome erotic supermarket 145
shops, rules for conduct 20–1
singular (as opposed to plural) pants, shorts, trousers, tights, etc. 214
smiling, and sex 24
smokers
and cafés 19
and cricket preservation 78–9
snobbery, Parisian, explained 4–6
Société des Amis des Arènes 104
Société, La (restaurant) 10
songsheets, risqué 163, 165
Sorbonne, La 99, 140
Southport, Napoleon III and 112
Spuller, Eugène (politician) 32
Sri Lankan community 12, 82
St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre 107
staircases, smell of 269
Stalingrad, place de 131
Statue of Liberty 88
straight lines, Haussmann and 112
strapontins, rules for 95–6
Strasbourg, boulevard de 12
Strasbourg-Saint-Denis crossroads 12
métro station 84
street cleaning 38–9, 66–7
street fouling
by dogs 29, 40, 42, 46
by men 2, 40–2
street life 29–51
street markets
food 179–82
second-hand 48–50
street-name signs
in sewers 65
regulation & laissez-faire 31–5
strike, Parisian origin of French word 57
studios, artists’, open days 234–8, 286
see also artists, HLM
Sully, Maurice de (bishop) 106
Sully Wing, Louvre 242
Sunday Times (newspaper) 157, 173
supermarket queues 2, 21
sushi fans 7
swingers’ clubs 159–60
Swiss Guards 110
tables, café, different price from bars 19
Taeuber, Sophie (artist) 244, 245
Tamil community 12
tartine de chèvre 192
see also chèvre chaud
Tati department store 82
taxis, rules for conduct 22
Teese, Dita von (actress) 170
television, unromantic 141–2
Temple Café Restaurant 150–2, 283
Temple métro station 83
Temple prison 150–1
Theatre X 142, 145
Thermes de Cluny 102, 283
third person impertinent 26
tilleuls 45–6
Toile de Jouy wallpaper 141
toilets, cafés, accessing 20
see also sanisettes, vespasiennes
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (artists) 15, 240
tourists
and sex 158–9, 162, 166–8, 169
Parisians and 1–2
Tout ce qui Brille (film) 6
traffic islands, Opéra métro station exits 87
trams, funicular 71
transvestites 15
trees, street 45–6
trendies 11–12
triangle d’or 200–1
Trocadéro 88, 128
Truffaut, François (filmmaker) 226
Tuileries Palace 110
Turenne, rue de 33
underground, see métro
urinoirs 2, 40–2
Van Gogh, Vincent (artist) 15, 229, 247
Varenne métro station 92
vegetarians, warning to 20
ventilation systems, métro 95
Vert Galant square 128
vespasiennes 2, 40–1
vide-greniers 48–50
Vikings 106
Villa Mallebay 238–9, 287
Villa Royale (hotel) 142–3, 284
Ville Lumiere 111–14, 119
Villiers 82
Voisin Café 177–8, 285
Voltaire (writer), see Volt’Hair
Volt’Hair 51
walkway, world’s fastest 84
Wallace, Richard (fountain donator) 55
Warhol, Andy (artist) 236, 249
water 53–67
water-supply system, Haussmann and 114
water-themed tours, Eau de Paris 65, 281–2
Watteau, Jean-Antoine (artist) 242
windmills, and sex 162
wordplay/puns 50–1
see also hairdressers
World War II 119–21
see also Nazi occupation
Worth, Charles (fashion designer) 198, 202–3
Zola, Émile (writer)
Au Bonheur des Dames 289
La Curée 115
Le Ventre de Paris 175–6, 179, 289
zones d’aménagement concerté 234
zoo animals, eating 177
Zouave statue 62–3
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