The Paris Métro’s Line One to Étoile is pretty crowded this afternoon. There are slightly fewer smartphones than there were a couple of years ago; a few passengers are even reading books. Line Two is next, almost empty, and just two stops to Porte Dauphine, where the train disappears into the tunnel as I emerge into the light of a sunny November day on the Avenue du Bois de Boulogne. No—it hasn’t been called that since 1929. It was renamed for General Ferdinand Foch, who famously commanded the entire Allied Western Front at the end of World War I. Claude Debussy couldn’t have known this; he died on March 25, 1918, just a few steps from here.
Gated Debussy
Claude Debussy’s house in Paris has become a sealed-off world for the super-rich.
