Tabacs d’orient. Philosophie covered more than a third

covered more than a third of Europe

COMPLETE ORIGINAL EDITION

Translation: VAILLANT Norbert

Luis Mizon

Il donne enfin des indices sur la manière dont les troubadours chantaient leurs compositions

Tabacs d’orient. Philosophie covered more than a thirdJacques Rda takes us in search of a packet of Old Holborn in a Paris bathed in the colors of the Orient: a stroll through the 20th arrondissement of tobacconists once Auvergne and now Manchurian, facing the black and gold storefronts of Koranic bookstores, or among shoemakers and bazaars whose signs are labeled in ideograms. Here, under thick plumes of smoke, is a vision of Paris more authentic and above all more amusing than the one usually served up.