André Sauvage's 1928 visual essay Etudes sur Paris includes a brief staged drama among its documentary observations. Down a pair of facing staircases leading from the Quai aux Fleurs come a man and a woman, only to find that they cannot meet because the staircases don't meet:
So each turns to go back up the stairs, each disconsolate:
Several riverside staircases are featured in Etudes sur Paris:
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Other staircases in the film are associated with railways, under and overground:
 Porte de Versailles |  Porte de Versailles |
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With churches, monuments and public buildings:
 St Lambert de Vaugirard |  St Etienne du Mont |
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 place du Carrousel |  l'Assemblée nationale |
 La Madeleine |  La Madeleine |
 Opéra Garnier |  Opéra Garnier |
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The film is of course interested in the stairs of Montmartre, those surrounding the Sacré Coeur and other, less monumental staircases:
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The service stairs of the Eiffel Tower are shown:
To be echoed later by the temporary stairs of construction-work scaffolding:
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