“This is how you get through the traffic in Place de la Concorde. With a death-defying attitude, you just bravely plunge onto the street without noticing the oncoming cars…Then you walk forward briskly so that the cars can drive around you. Because if you don’t look, then the drivers think they have to watch out. If you don’t look at all, the drivers think they have to be careful. So far, I’ve always made it across safely—but not every time was I entirely lucky.”