Passage Choiseul

Passage Choiseul is a long, narrow gallery capped by a glass roof that runs straight as an arrow between Rue des Petits Champs and Rue Saint Augustin. Built in eighteen twenty-seven, it functions as a covered thoroughfare lined with small shops. Louis-Ferdinand Céline lived here as a child while his mother ran a lace shop in one of the stalls. He later captured the oppressive atmosphere of the narrow arcade in his novel Death on the Installment Plan, describing its damp, flickering gaslight.