This is the fourth year I’ve stayed in a third-floor apartment at 7 rue Jean Mero, located in the heart of Cannes’ old section, so I kinda know the neighborhood a bit. And I’m telling you that the city engineers have all but ruined rue Meynadier, which parallels rue Felix Faure, by installing overly bright bulbs in the hanging street lamps. Why kill the charm of nightfall? To help women and older people feel safer, I’m guessing. There used to be this thing called darkness that would settle down and take over when the sun went down. It existed for many, many centuries and somehow people coped with it. And then 21st Century zombies came along and decided to get rid of it. Rue Meynadier used to be a nice shadowy little street — I was there, I know — but that’s gone now. The powers-that-be have flooded it with something that almost looks like indoor mall lighting.