One day, while looking for the métro station at La Défense, I decided to try and find an alternate entrance to the station, instead of going up to the one located right in the middle of the Esplanade’s higher part. An old and possibly obsolete sign pointed me towards the end of the avenue I was walking in, right beneath the concrete plateau that is La Défense.

After a quick walk through a sketchy construction site, hidden in the shadows of the Total tower looming above, I began to ponder the inherent stupidity of my logic (“Why the hell am I looking for a metro station in an apparent no man’s land ?”). My intense reflection was however cut short by an unexpected discovery, hidden down a flight of stairs.