Tabacs d’orient. Voyages A first group of five

A first group of five articles thus questions the degree of involvement of the authorities of the polis or the monarchical state in matters of personal identification

whether masculine or feminine

devenu empereur

Archaeologists have been depicted in these cartoons for over 150 years

Tabacs d’orient. Voyages A first group of fiveJacques Rda takes us in search of a packet of Old Holborn in a Paris bathed in the colors of the Orient: a stroll through the 20th arrondissement of tobacconists once Auvergne and now Manchurian, facing the black and gold storefronts of Koranic bookstores, or among shoemakers and bazaars whose signs are labeled in ideograms. Here, under thick plumes of smoke, is a vision of Paris more authentic and above all more amusing than the one usually served up.