Dernier réverbère au gaz de France

A single, slender iron post stands on the sidewalk in Malakoff, topped by a glass lantern that flickers with a real gas flame. While thousands of these lamps once illuminated the streets of Paris and its suburbs, the municipal gas company replaced them all with electric bulbs by the nineteen sixties. This specific lamp escaped that modernization because the local resident who lived in the house behind it kept the connection alive, refusing to let the city technicians cut the line.