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instead of the officers' hotel (Grand Hotel du Louvre) or the Union, or any large eating place, we went up a little side street to one of those hole-in-the-walls presided over by a returned soldier and casting reflection of newly painted white-walled dinginess in the wall mirrors. In these delightful little places the "Bonjour, M'sieur" "Au revoir M'sieur" are made much of. In the Quarter Latin the same sort of a place would indicate that it was the usual thing to shake hands with everybody in the place ......
Anyway for 18 francs the 3 of us