Antoine: And you, do you work?
Paul: Yes, I sell watches, I work for a watch seller and I sell old watches, collectible watches.
Antoine: So, to collectors?
Paul: To collectors. It is one of my passions.
Antoine: That's great.
Paul: I have two passions, music and watches. I've studied music, and now I sell watches.
Antoine: That's good. And which instrument do you play?
Paul: I play guitar, mainly jazz.
Antoine: Oh, you play jazz!
Paul: Yes, a lot, and yesterday I went to eat at a little restaurant here in Paris, and there was a jazz band. It was very good, very nice, with a great atmosphere. Paris has a lot of energy. It's great!
Antoine: Is it good?
Paul: Brussels is a bit quiet, but it's not that bad because everything goes very fast in Paris.
Antoine: Are the surroundings more pleasant?
Paul: It is gentler, the atmosphere is more cordial, less oppressive, less urgent, less aggressive. People honk less.
Antoine: There are fewer people in the streets.
Paul: Fewer people. Brussels is a village compared to Paris.
Antoine: Well, I have to come see you, then.
Paul: Yes, it would be a pleasure. You'll get to see the good life. A wonderful little country, you don't know it well enough. It's an hour and twenty-five minutes from Paris.
Antoine: An hour and twenty-five? By car?
Paul: By train, I already told you. You have to come!
Antoine: I'll come with pleasure.
Paul: French people have a poor understanding of Belgium. Often, they ask us who the president of Belgium is.
Antoine: Oh no!
Paul: And the whole world knows that there is only a king!
Antoine: And the whole world knows that, above all, there is a princess!
Paul: Three or four governments. A Flemish government, the French-speaking one, the Brussels one, and a little government, the German one.
Antoine: And a federal government.
Paul: And all of this in a federal government. So, it's very complicated. I think that we are one of the tiniest countries in the world…
Antoine: And the most complicated!
Paul: And the country with the most ministers. That's why we have to pay a lot of taxes, because we have to pay all these bizarre people. They fight with each other all the time, but we have a king who unites everyone, which is good. And there are still people who are royalists. I visited the Louvre…
Antoine: You still haven't cut off your king's head?
Paul: No, no, not yet! I visited the Louvre before and I have noticed that they have built a mall under the Louvre. I was a little bit shocked, because I told myself that a mall under a king's palace, it seems very strange.
Antoine: They will never do that to Versailles!
Paul: I'm expecting the worst.
Antoine: No, they'll never do such a thing to Versailles!
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