Chapter Eighteen Paris and Rome
Angel and Adhara walked arm in arm along Avenue Pierre Mendès-France, a mirror-image of Giles and Élise several paces ahead of them as they approached number 67, the offices of Le Monde. Angel admired the translucent, dynamic façade of the building with its captivating concave form and remembered Élise’s words at the table the previous evening.
“You’ll love my workplace, Angel. It’s on the Rive Gauche, just next to the old Latin Quarter and the Jardin des Plantes. The Le Monde Group deliberated over architectural proposals for our future home in early 2015, just days after the attacks on Charlie Hebdo Magazine’s headquarters. In the end, they selected the Snøhetta project. They’re architects based in Oslo. It took courage to approve a design that spans a p
