This photo I took in early December. I was in the Marais, found this interesting, and snapped it. It’s on the wall of a branch of HSBC, a huge bank.
Cahier des charges: notre systeme économique ne marche pas! (click to enlarge)
A “Cahier des charges” seems to be a “scope statement” or some such businessy thing I don’t understand. But the rest of the text is French 101, complete with a spelling error: “our economic system doesn’t work.”
I happened to be in the same place last week, and I was excited by the chance to snap the photo again, but this time without the pesky scooter in the way:
Notre système économique ne marche (toujours) pas! (click to enlarge)
It was only yesterday that I realized that this was, actually, not the same message as before. Now it reads, “our economic system (still) doesn’t work!” In other words, the original was effaced, and then a response returned. I am not sure if I have ever seen this before, but the anonymous writer quickly became a hero of mine. Just like with yesterday’s discussion of national identity, hiding something doesn’t make it disappear (or become not true).
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