Word: darboy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...regularly in Parisian theaters, cafes, police stations and courts. After two obscure terrorists bombed the Chamber of Deputies, the president of that body waited for the smoke to clear, then said, "Gentlemen, the meeting continues." In the 1870s the Communards executed 60 hostages, including the Archbishop of Paris, Georges Darboy, during a two-month insurrection that took at least 20,000 lives. A century later the famed Middle East terrorist Carlos, also known as Ilyich Ramirez Sanchez, used Paris as a base and once killed two French secret-service men and a Lebanese accomplice in a shoot...
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