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The Cine-Tourist
Du rififi chez les hommes: exterior locations

1/ Le Pascal, 19 rue Pascal, 5e:
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2/café on the rue Danielle Casanova,  1e (near junction with the rue de la Paix):
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2 (cont.)/ Mappin & Webb, rue de la Paix, 1e:
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3/ rue Pigalle, 9e ( at the junction with the rue de Douai). The L'Age d'or club as at 61 rue Pigalle (actually a club called Piccadilly's):
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4/ rue de la Paix, 2e, opposite Mappin & Webb, then down the street past shops (e.g. Henri Maupiou, 2 rue de la Paix):
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5/ Hôtel de Calais, 5 rue des Capucines, 1e (view onto Mappin & Webb)
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6/ 1 rue de la Paix, 1e (Mappin and Webb building):
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7/  cité du Retiro, 8e; then rue du faubourg St Honoré:
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8/ succession of views around the rue de la Paix & place Vendôme, 1e:
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9/ place de l’Opéra, 2e:
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10/ métro exit, place de la Concorde, 8e:
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11/ cité du Retiro, 8e:
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12/ rue de la Paix, 1e:
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13/ rue de la Fontaine au But, 18e (junction with rue Marcadet, rue Francoeur). Ferrati's address is given as no. 40 rue de la Fontaine au But, but we see them go into number 20:
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14/ Pont de Bir-Hakeim, 16e:
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15/ Port de Javel, 15e (between the pont de Grenelle and the pont Mirabeau):
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16/ PTT bureau, 48 rue du Louvre. 1e:
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17/ London, Piccadilly Circus:
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18/ rue Pigalle, 9e
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19/ Institut médico-légal (the Morgue), quai de la Rapée, 12e, the pont d'Austerlitz and the viaduc d'Austerlitz:
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20/ Jardin des Plantes, 5e, statue of Lamarck:
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21/ viaduc d'Auteuil, aka pont du Point-du-Jour, 15e/16e (demolished 1962):
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22/ rue d'Annam/rue de la Bidossoa, 20e: Jo and family live at 2 rue d'Annam:
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 23/ Le Pascal, 19 rue Pascal, 5e
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24/ cour de la Metairie, with ‘café François’ on corner (actually Le Métro, 92 rue de Belleville), then rue de Belleville:
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25/ passage Julien Lacroix, 20e, and view of the rue Vilin (steps leading up to the rue Piat)
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26/ stairway somewhere in the 20e, still to be identified:
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 27/ the passerelle de la Mare, 20e, with Notre Dame de la Croix in the background. The car is parked on the rue de la Mare:
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28/ place du Châtelet/quai de Gesvres, 4e
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29/ avenue de l’Observatoire,  Port Royal station and the teinturerie at 45 rue Georges Bernanos, 5e:
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29 (cont.)/ Port Royal station:
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30/ Saint Remy lès Chevreuse railway station, then a villa in the vicinity:
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31/ café on the rue des Chantiers, Versailles (junction with rue Benjamin Franklin):
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32/ villa near Saint Rémy lès Chevreuse:
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33/ the journey back, starting at the café in Versailles, rue des Chantiers:
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34/ 2, rue d'Annam, 20e:
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33 (cont.)/ the N307, 2 kilometres from the pont de Saint Cloud, 5 from Paris:
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33 (cont.)/ rue Dailly, Saint Cloud, then junction of rue Dailly and rue Vauguyon, then bottom of the rue Dailly  (heading down towards the pont de Saint Cloud):
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33 (cont.)/ pont de Saint Cloud, then Saint Cloud viewed from the Paris side:
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33 (cont.)/ through the Bois de Boulogne, past the moulin de Longchamp:
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33 (cont.)/ avenue Foch towards the Arc de Triomphe:
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33 (cont.)/ onto the avenue de Wagram, towards the boulevards by the overground métro (past La Chapelle station, down the boulevard de la Villette):
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33 (cont.)/ Boulevard de Belleville, 19e:
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33 (cont.)/ Rue de Ménilmontant, 20e:
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35/ rue de la Bidassoa, 20e, then rue d'Annam:
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