Young lovers who are foreign art students stroll arm in arm on a terrace in the Jardin du Luxembourg and are heading towards the statue of Saint Genevieve who was born in the 5th century and became the Patron Saint of Paris and of Gendarmes. The marble sculpture was made by the French sculptor Michel-Louis Victor Mercier in 1845. A small boy is crouching, looking intently at the ground. A woman wearing a headscarf is concentrating on her knitting sitting on one of the many park chairs, a sturdy iron chair that has been placed next to the plinth beneath the statue. 6e arrondissement, Left Bank, Paris, France, circa 1959.