A Tangent:
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by mauld:
Guess I'm one of the few who don't care about trying to impress the doorman...</font>
How odd to think that one arrives in style (or, alternatively, in a Bagnol-Taxi) to impress the doorman.
A satisfying
séjour in Paris is the sum of all the small and large pleasures of the trip: from finding the right Meursault to go with my ris de veau, to wearing socks and underwear that coordinate perfectly with the rest of what I'm wearing. Others (e.g. peter42, apparently) may interest themselves in the doorman's observations; I'm interested in pleasing and impressing only myself and anyone with whom I may be sharing the trip.