Word: boise
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Capitalist Showcase. Since 1966 the two-day fete had been held annually in Paris' leafy Bois de Vincennes. Last spring, however, the Gaullist-dominated Paris city council withdrew permission for use of the park on the grounds that the fair was too disruptive to strollers. The Communist mayor of...
The Louvre, everyone knows, is the most famous museum in Paris. But which is the least famous? Until lately, a good candidate for the laurels of obscurity was the Musée Marmottan, a two-story mansion in the outer regions of the 16th Arrondissement near the Bois de Boulogne...
A ten-minute walk from "Tante Léonie's" across the Loir River (not to be confused with the Loire) takes the pilgrim to the Pré Catalan. The five-acre garden was created by Proust's uncle, a cloth merchant in Illiers, as a replica of...
What Jones means when he uses the word black is not always evident, though it is clear that he is against anything white in the American or European sense. "O Allah O Shango (rulers of our ancient cities) O Osiris, we will be closer to you from now on,'...
Diary of a Century by Jacques Henri Lartigue. Viking. $27.50. Accomplished Dilettante Lartigue was given his first camera in 1901 at age seven, and immediately began to illustrate his diary. He is still at it. Son of a rich Parisian banker, but above all child of an ebullient and optimistic...