and he went out to eat in a café called Le Croissant,

然后去了一个叫做可颂的咖啡店吃饭
which is still there, it's not called Le Croissant anymore,

那家店犹在只是不再叫做可颂了
and he was having a meal and about to go back to his newspaper offices

他吃着饭准备回到报社
right near there-- it's near the Boulevard Montmartre,

就在那儿-就在蒙马特大道上
where a lot of the newspaper offices still are--and a right-wing nut put

那儿仍留有多家报社-一名右翼狂徒
a pistol through from outside, through the curtain into the

隔着窗帘朝餐馆里开了一枪
restaurant, and blew him away.

把他干掉了
There was this tremendous sort of turmoil in the street,

街道上非常骚乱
and people who remembered it, including the writer Roger Martin du Gard,

而那犹记得此景的人们包括作家
remembered this sort of swell of chaos

罗杰·马丁·杜·加尔记得的不仅
but also of apprehension.

是膨胀的混乱亦有泛滥的恐惧
In a sense it's easy to read this backwards, nostalgia,

某种意义上很容易将此解读为倒退