9 août

On the Rue des Rosiers, the employees of Goldenberg's delicatessen will readily show you the machine-gun bullet marks left by a terrorist attack in August of 1982. Fifty yards down the street, the old hammam has been revamped and transformed, first into a Western clothes shop, then a kosher pizzeria, and finally a fancy tea room. The Marais as a whole has become one of the nerve centers of Paris fashion.

Nancy Huston The Mark of the Angel 1999 (L'empreinte de l'ange 1998)