Maybe this is a little anal but -

. . . if you're retired and have the time to street view it, it can make the book you're reading a bit more interesting. The book says, " A tunnel-like alley called the Passage Saint-Jacques lay between a small pharmacy and several ATM machines.  A wrought-iron gate with a security touch pad secured the entrance to the tunnel, and that gate stood in sharp, contemporary relief against the passage's ornate stone arch . . . "

I'm not sure when the book was written or when the Google Street View pictures were taken, but in getting to this point the book said "there was no parking at all on rue de Vesles because of some road construction and repair".   Guess what I saw in the Street View picture!