It's always good to know the etiquette and customs when on vacation as a tourist in a foreign land - like this unwritten rule ...
Public information of all kinds is abundant in Paris and within moments of emerging from the station I learn from a street sign that rue Daubenton was named after a naturalist who lived from 1716 ...
The 28-year-old, named by French media as Mehmed D., of Turkish-Kurdish origins, was also condemned to pay a €2,000 fine.