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I was nonplussed at a 1992 symposium in Vienna when a hall filled with international art world denizens went absolutely wild, cheering and stomping when Kelley was introduced on a panel.

“We would talk about it in the barracks, we would talk about it in the gym, we would talk about it at the chow hall,” he said.

But that was revised down to 2,500 – which made the cavernous halls of the conference centre feel much emptier.

Nearly 30 inmates, selected for good behavior, donned tuxedos with pink boutonnieres and waited as daughters, some dressed in formal gowns, were led into the prison’s Bible college transformed into a makeshift dance hall.

Ten years later, the figure had dropped to just 133,000, according to data from Paris city hall, which subsidises the sector.