There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.

“Le gamin est un être qui s'amuse, parce qu'il est malheureux.”

“Let us never weary of repeating, that to think first of the disinherited and so…”

“The sixth of January, 1482, is not, however, a day of which history has preserv…”

“A breath of Paris preserves the soul.”