"Émilie Thouret was shocked that her husband had been wearing brown shoes. He'd never had a pair and had been wearing black ones when he left the house. Very light brown. What used to be called "goose-dung shoes".... M had once longed to own a pair of goose-dung shoes. They had been all the rage, like those very short, fawn-colored raincoats, known as bum-freezers. He had actually bought a pair, in a shop on the Boulevard Saint-Martin, opposite the Théâtre de l'Ambigu, but had returned them when his wife laughed at him."
-The Man on the Boulevard
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