It's long, half an hour of tête-à-tête with two cheese matches.
Especially since, disappointed by their limited conversation, we swallowed them up in less than two minutes.
We are therefore authentically alone during the twenty-eight that follow.
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Around us, the service is active, couples whisper tender secrets to each other, tourists marvel.
We have to face the facts: we have been forgotten.
So we kill time by trying to get an idea of the profuse decoration of a Napoleon III candy box which mixes heavy curtains, mismatched monumental chandeliers, white orchids, Sèvres vases, silver duck presses.
Le Pré Catalan, in the Bois de Boulogne, triple starred since 2007. Richard Haughton / Richard Haughton
When, despite all the goodwill made available by idleness, we come to the conclusion that this "modern and astonishing concept" touted on the website is strictly speaking neither one nor the other. butler comes to apologize for this bad start.
Dinner at Pré Catelan where Frédéric Anton, 3 Michelin stars, officiates
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