How to Be a Parisian: The Reassuring Order Beneath Paris’s Apparent Chaos

How to Be a Parisian: The Reassuring Order Beneath Paris’s Apparent Chaos

Stephen discovers that beneath Paris’s apparent anarchy lies a reassuring sense of order. There’s an old musicians’ cliché that you should never ask French audiences to clap along. The theory is that they’ll be out of time. I know plenty of French people who can stick to the beat – I even play with a French drummer. But it’s true that I‘ve seen French audiences clapping out of time…

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