Half way through the building of the commercial promenade París (Rivadavia and José María Moreno Avenues, Buenos Aires), Berni was summoned to paint a mural, which he entitled La vida feliz, and where a group of figures evolved in a natural milieu. At a long distance were seen typical monuments of the French capital city, as the Eiffel tower.

The work was impunibly destroyed on April 8, 1966, in order to widen the area of commercial shops. One should ask whether the accumulated revenues obtained with the restructuring would have exceeded the pecuniary value the work could have reached by the first decade of the 21st century, assessed approximately between 800,000 and 1,000,000 US dollars, regardless of its symbolic value and the loss caused to the cultural heritage of the city of Buenos Aires.