Passage Jouffroy, Grandes boulevards, 2nd Arr., Paris. June 2015
There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.
Thomas Hardy
Within these passages were invented the world’s first shopping malls.
This one, built in 1845, was the first to be built entirely of cast iron and glass, and to have radiant heating rising from the floors. They’re one of the treasures of urban Paris, but you have to search around for a bit to find them.