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and he knew he could not get past the guards
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to get close enough to claim any victims.
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He then checked out the Restaurant Bignon,
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followed by the Cafe American,
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and then the most chic of them all,
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the Cafe de la Paix in the Grand Hotel,
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which is still there.
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He was in some way a flaneur,
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an intellectual who had
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briefly in his life been something of a dandy,
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but if so he was an impoverished flaneur
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who lived on the margins of urban life