Is Paris burning? No, but it's hot ...

Clearly French advertisers think women waiting for buses want to look at beautiful women wearing lingerie, jewelry and alluring smiles. Who can say no? The selection of pictures above and below, from bus stops, news stands, a delivery truck and the back of a tourist bus suggest the casual sensuality of la ville des lumières as Parisians know it and love it. (All were taken, by the way, when the outer-city ghettoes were aflame and many Americans thought that France was about to become a caliphate.)