Leisure activities in Paris, France in the mid 1950s. Men sit at cafe Aux Deux Magots on left bank of Seine. Men drink and eat at tables in the cafe. People walk near the cafe. Frenchmen stand in a group and play Pétanque or Bocce Ball in a park. Other men watch a French boules player take his turn. Three balls on the ground. Man throws ball and hits one of the balls.
View from street of a bar and the Hotel Cité du Midi Pigalle in the Montmartre, Paris, France. Men and woman stand at the doorway of bar. Man and woman come and enter the hotel next door. A woman approaches a man and talks to him as he walks down the street. The man shakes his head and continues to walk. Man and woman enter the Hotel. Neon signage “PIGALLE”.
Parisian nightlife in Rue Pigalle. A sector in Pigalle, Paris. A sign highlights the name 'Pigalle'. Traffic on the street. People cross the street. A restaurant named 'Narcisse'. A neon sign reads 'Sphinx'. Le Sphinx nightclub across Pigall’s. Pigall’s on the right side of Rue Pigalle (77 Rue Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, 75009 Paris, France).
Students gathered for a sit-down strike in Paris, France. Three thousand students riot in the Latin Quarter in Paris protesting the mandatory military service draft and Conscription laws regarding the Algerian War. More reservists are called for Algerian Service. French Police Force restores order after student riots. French police men hit students with gendarme capes and restrain them.
View of heavy vehicular traffic of 1950s cars and buses on street of Champs-Élysées in Paris, France. The Arc de Triomphe seen in the far background.
Queen Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother) visits Versailles in France. Her Rolls Royce Phantom car pulls up to the entrance of the Versailles palace. A man opens her car doors and moves aside. A uniformed officer holds the door and salutes, as the Queen Mother steps from the car and is greeted by a bearded gentleman in a turban, and French diplomats. She greets people in the receiving line and then enters the palace. Many press reporters and photographers follow. Later, the Queen Mother arrives by car, again, this time, dressed for dinner, wearing a triple pearl necklace. She is greeted cordially and escorted by a diplomat. Exterior views of Versailles, including the equestrian statue of Louis XIV.