Stealing a Smile.
Paris, 1911.
The first strands of the early morning sun filtered over the Seine, creating an ephemeral glow that seemed to emanate from the river rather than the sky. Languidly, the streets began to awaken; cars slunk into the roads, their wheels turning in time with the steady hum of the city. People slowly culminated in coffee shops; sitting nonchalantly on the streets outside - sipping coffee and smoking their breakfast in hoops into the air. Many were reading the extra edition of, ‘Le Temps’; an unprecedented occurrence for the print industry at the time. But not as unprecedented as the headline it presented, ‘La Joconde! Volée!’