Carcassonne,Restaurant,Mid'90s

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This is a “Familiar Quotation” by Gustave Nadaud (French poet, writer, musician and singer). There must be a dozen different translations.
How old I am! I’m eighty years!
I’ve worked both hard and long,
Yet patient as my life has been
My dearest sight I have not seen.
It seems almost a wrong;
A dream I had when life was new
Alas our dreams! They come not true;
I thought to see fair Carcassonne,
That lovely city Carcassonne.
During one visit, French TV was filming a special about Joan ‘d Arc. Since Joan had never been to Carcassonne, they built a new castle entrance out of plywood and paper, so no one would recognize where the picture was being filmed. This restaurant entrance/patio is not a cardboard fake, but it sure was changed a lot in the ‘80s and ‘90s.
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Another view, I don't know which year, but most likely in the late 1980s.

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