It's not Proustian except that he may have laid eyes on it but something that sticks in my mind from recent time in Paris is an amazing from-the-period Art Nouveau styled restaurant called Restaurant Julian at 16, rue du Faubourg Saint-Denis (nearest Metro: Strasbourg-Saint-Denis). You don't have to eat there but just step in and look around at this amazing from-the-period place; I've never seen anything like it. It should be a museum but its a working restaurant. And of course I had forgotten to bring my camera when the hotel desk clerk sent us there.
George, Thanks, i will in Paris on the 17th, and if I do get to that resturaunt I will take photos and send to you. So far I have seen the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam, and the many wonderful galleries in Cologne, one had The Friends Rendevous, by Surrealist Max Ernst, and others by Dali. I have had camera jams and battery death, so it has been interesting, but as long as we drink in the atmosphere all is well. Simon
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