When one of the waitresses was rushing to open the door for a customer she knocked over a huge vase of flowers which, you guessed it, smashed onto our table and soaked us with water!
" Instead of three or four starters, we have two, " explains waitress Laura Rubio, who says she's just " waiting to see what will happen" and whether it will put off diners.
At a Normandy sea-front restaurant, a waitress says they are under-staffed because former colleagues will no longer put up with unsociable evening and weekend work.
Mr Strauss-Kahn was forced to abandon his political career in France after being accused by a chambermaid of attempted rape four years ago. From Paris Lucy Williamson.