It's hard to think of public benches without remembering the words of the famous song by Georges Brassens, "The Lovers of Public Benches", composed and performed in 1953: "Lovers who kiss on public benches, / Public Benches, public benches, / Not giving a damn about the sidelong gaze of honest passers-by (…) Saying pathetic “I love you” to each other / Have very nice little faces”. The photographer Robert Doisneau has immortalized them in multiple shots where he represents embracing couples as well as children and elderly people. Present since the Middle Ages, benches were deployed on a large scale in Paris by Baron Haussmann during the Second Empire in the alignment of trees, along the sidewalks. What can this character wearing a traditional attribute of the Khon dance and this French woman be talking about while contemplating the walls of the French Embassy ?