Ceci n'est pas Hulot.

[Mojo]

First it was Brunel.

Then David Colquhoun.

But now Monsieur Hulot appears on Paris billboards without his pipe.

It's political correctness gone mad I tell you...

 

[richardm]

I think the argument about not putting a cigar on the statue to deter vandalism is a reasonable one - but not airbrushing things out of photographs. That's just silly. Especially in the case of David's photo; a jaw clenched to hold a pipe looks downright inane when the pipe is gone.