- Croissant ou pain au chocolat ? - Oh, that's very sweet, but I'd prefer something that would allow a full display of my table manners.
Le café-roulette
Captured by the camera on what was probably an extraordinarily quiet morning of 1911, the terrace of this café displayed an arrangement of chairs and prices suggestive of a flattened roulette table. It's as if this moment of strange stillness more than 100 years ago was gambling its own preservation... and it won. The source for... Continue Reading →