Crowd Queuing at Entrée Bleue, Paris

4 October 2017 · Paris

A queue forms along metal crowd-control barriers on a cobblestone plaza in Paris, plane trees still holding their early-autumn colour overhead. The sign reads Entrée Bleue — a blue entrance, an orderly wait, the low afternoon sun cutting across the pavement. Paris has a particular talent for making the mundane administrative feel like a scene: the queue is functional, the setting is not.