The restaurant menu of Chez Jean just after the reformation of the currency from old French Francs to new. Chez Jean in Boulevard St-Germain was a cheap Left Bank restaurant, popular with the Beats, and was one of the few restaurants in Paris that still had a thick layer of sawdust on the floor in the late 1950s. A lot of people could only afford one meal a day and would eat there because they could not cook in the little hotels. The nearby Beat Hotel at 9, rue Git-le-Coeur was special because its residents were allowed to cook in their rooms. The entrance to the restaurant was in the Cour du Commerce Saint-Andre, 6e arrondissement, Left Bank, Paris, France, winter 1957.