ABSTRACT

Walk the streets of Paris and stop various passers-by at random. The young engineer was born in Marseille but came to Paris to train in his profession. The middle-aged woman is from Alsace and came to Paris 40 years ago to work as a domestic servant. The bar owner has lived in Paris all his life but his father came from the Auvergne. The telephonist was born in Normandy and married there but came to Paris shortly afterwards with her husband who is a surveyor. The student is from Morocco and is writing a thesis in chemistry: at weekends he works as a hotel receptionist. The street cleaner arrived 15 years ago from Mali.