Place Dauphine
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Photo by André Breton. From Nadja.
“You see that window over there? It’s black like all the others. Look closely. In a minute it will light up. It will be red.”
André Breton meets Nadja here for dinner two days after meeting her. At their table at 15 Place Dauphine,
Nadja continuously makes uncannily accurate predictions, as in: “You see that window over there?
It’s black like all the others. Look closely. In a minute it will light up. It will be red.”
The evening quickly takes a turn from romantic to tragic as Nadja is overcome by visions of
dead people and blue wind. Breton escorts her away, toward the quai de l’Horloge, then back
toward Place Dauphine, across Pont-Neuf and through the Tuileries Gardens.
Pont Neuf