The most important people in Paris

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Old Pictures of Paris

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Chez Les Artistes

Russian restaurant Chez Les Artistes, 22, rue Lécluse. Photo: Newspaper Paris Soir, November 18th, 1931.

Sources

Both the shooting and the trial were in all French newspapers those days. For further reading:

A modern online Russian article

In the Newspapers: The Shooting in 1931  (in French)

The article by Lydia’s admirer Jean Guyon-Cesbron