Quai d’Orléans, 5 pm, May 2009 | The late afternoon sun invariably draws people to the banks of the Seine -- here on the Ile Saint-Louis -- to sit and talk, hug, eat and drink or just stare into the distance on a balmy spring day. It's hard to imagine a more mellow (or as the French would say, “tranquille”) scene.

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