Pizza Rico Grill

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Pizza Rico Grill
Seen from the Galerie Véro-Dodat
Rue Jean-Jacques-Rousseau
Quartier des Halles, 1st arrondissement
Paris, July 2002

“Véro-Dodat was one of the first of Paris's passageways to get gas lighting in 1830, and one of the last to fall into decline. Its decline began during the Second Empire with the demise of the ‘Messageries Laffitte et Gaillard’. It was listed as a French historical landmark on 9 June 1965 and was restored in 1997 to its former 19th-century, neoclassical glory, complete with its elegant shops specializing in antiques, objets d'art, art books and fashion accessories. It is said this is where French writer Gérard de Nerval would often drink at the restaurant ‘Café de l'Époque’, located on the Rue Croix-des-Petits-Champs entrance of the gallery, and that is where he took his last drink before committing suicide by hanging in Châtelet. The actress Rachel occupied an apartment in the passage of 1838 in 1842. The print-seller Gabriel Aubert, editor of ‘Le Charivari’ and of ‘La Caricature’, also settled there and introduced the gallery to the most famous caricaturists of the time.” (Galerie Véro-Dodat, Wikipedia)