Word: boule
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last Time I Saw Paris is a loving, microscopic peep at the infusorial life of the block-long rue de la Huchette (just off the boul' Mich'), Author Paul's lost hedonistic heaven. Its hotels, bars, bordello and habitues exhale for him the garlicky breath of the real France−"the France one prefers to remember." Mostly they stagger between the tough tenderness of a Daumier cartoon and William Locke's The Beloved Vagabond. They also suggest a reason for France's fall...