
Rue Rabelais, Google Street View, fair use
The street was cordoned off. Worse, it was guarded by an armed police officer. And he seemed to be giving me a look. Bugger. I fiddled with my phone, pretending to be lost, then followed Googlemaps round to the other end of the road. There was a metal barrier there too, and another man with a uniform, a semi–automatic, and a look of suspicion.