That took me back - I did A level French and suffered greatly from years of having to read Jean-Paul Sartre's novels. I think he practically invented the angst part, let alone the existentialist movement.
www.iep.utm.edu/sartre-ex/
Reading this sort of stuff is bad enough in English, doing it in French was the best soporific ever.
Estranged Son and Future Granddaughter
To think that London, or anywhere else for that matter, does not belong to any one demographic