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  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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