December 2008
2 posts
Let them eat cake!
On the eve of my birthday this year, I have the enviable pleasure of calling home my own, small-but-very-cosy 4th floor Paris apartment in the multicultural working-class district of La Goutte d’Or. From the two, tall Haussmann-era windows beside my desk I can almost reach out and touch the dome of the Sacre Coeur, standing like a lighthouse of Montmartre as it reflects a solitary presence against...