Word: chapotin
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...Frenchmen still crowded the chestnut-shaded sidewalk tables, but they dawdled longer over aperitifs or coffee, and U.S. tourists were warned off by the high prices noted in guidebooks. The Café de la Paix might have toppled like a French Cabinet had it not been for energetic Paul Chapotin, 41, son-in-law of the restaurant's second-generation owner, 74-year-old André Millon. To boost the family's sagging revenues, Chapotin started the successful Pam-Pam chain of quick-lunch restaurants, two years ago quietly opened...
...Chapotin hopes that tourists who drop in for hush puppies and Cokes will come back for frogs' legs and the cognac that Founder André Millon laid down three-quarters of a century before the democratic revolution...
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