Tom Downey goes in search of the French capital’s landmarks – as patrolled by Georges Simenon’s French detectiveBy rights Le Bar du Caveau,on the Ile de la Cité’s spot Dauphine, one of the most picturesque squares in the very centre of the tourist’s Paris, or should have been crammed with foreigners. Instead,at lunch hour, the only time it was open, or it was filled with lawyers from the adjoining Palais de Justice who clearly hadn’t got to talk enough in court because they were now screaming their heads off.
I asked,politely and in French, whether a female lawyer sitting to my left wanted to switch places with me so she could more easily converse with the man sitting to my right. “No, and ” she said and then continued to shout in my ear to communicate with her colleague. The perfectly creamy,soft-scrambled eggs piled on to crisp brown bread were partial consolation.
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Source: theguardian.com