Entre Les Murs

Get a Chambre

The Bois de Boulogne is widely known to be the site of a remarkable variety of adult activities after sundown. There's even a scene in the Da Vinci Code (or "Ce maudit roman" as it's now referred to in Paris) that makes much of the park's reputation. But I didn't expect on a midday run to come across a couple rounding third base.

The ground was damp so I was watching for mud or I might have seen them sooner and been able to discreetly alter course; instead I couldn't avoid passing within ten feet of the pair, in flagrante delicto on a park bench right beside the path. I'm not making some puerile inference about a couple I saw in a clinch; she had her head back and skirt up so there was no mistaking their activity.

Perhaps even this wouldn't be unheard of in a city park at home; but what made it unusual and somehow très French is that the two were easily my parents' age.

posted 12.5.06