Credit Lyonnais

While in Paris (October 2008) we stayed in an apartment in the district known as Opera, which is the home to many of France's financial institutions.

Each night we would sit in our room having a wine watching the people in the Credit Lyonnais headquarters across the street have meetings, talk on the phone, file documents, work on their computers.

This photo, taken on Friday Oct 14 shows one of those workers clearing her desk after being made redundant. This was the beginning of the financial crisis.