Oum Kalsoum at the Monde Arabe and pickpockets at the Prefecture of Police.

This afternoon was more one for walking than seeing.  I had a brisk walk through the Oum Kalsoum show at the Monde Arabe, subtitled the Fourth Pyramid. 

She (Fatima Ibrahim al-Sayyid al-Beltagui,) was apparently a big deal Eqyptian/Arab singer who lived from either 1898 or 1904 to 1974 and could be called the nightingale of the Nile.  Her songs were epic and took 1-1 1/2 hours to sing and a lot of visitors seemed happy to sit watching films.  For me, a bit of Oum lasted a long time.

Then I returned across the street from Les Comperes where I'd eaten a while back to the Prefecture of Police: Lost Objects Division to pick up Colette's credit cards, etc., picked from her pocket in March boarding the RER at Roissy/Charles de Gaulle.  This was French bureaucracy at its best.  Get a number, produce your documents, authorization and 10 E et voila!