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Word: delavault (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1989-1989
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Five days later, in a theater across town, a dozen masked youths with shaved heads invaded a concert of revolution-era songs. Crying "Long live the King!" the royalist punks tossed tear-gas canisters and knocked mezzo-soprano Helene Delavault to the floor. "At first we thought it was part of the spectacle," said Jean-Noel Jeanneney, president of the government's Bicentennial Mission. It wasn't. The singer was hospitalized, and President Mitterrand led the list of notables expressing outrage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite? | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

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