Entre Les Murs

Dining with the Bohemians

AL leaves today, so yesterday evening we went out for dinner.  We started at Le Dôme, for oysters.  There we admired the 1920's era lamps, stained glass and murals - although I believe during that period Le Dôme was a much humbler restaurant (Gayot backhandedly remarks that the decor is "neo-Art Deco").  There was one odd-looking couple who might have been "literary and leftish" (which is what one is told to expect by The Economist), but if it had been in Sartre's day as it is now he wouldn't have been able to afford to eat there; and Trotsky would have sniffed "bourgeois" and departed at speed.

AL has developed a fondness for crêpes during her visit, so we had the rest of our dinner at a nearby crêperie where one could more readily imagine Sartre tucking in.

posted 15.10.06