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Temperatures in Paris dropped to 10 degrees. At midweek a 5 1/2-inch snowfall turned the French capital into a winter fantasy land where students waged impromptu snowball fights and cross-country skiers trekked across the Champs de Mars near the Eiffel Tower. Following the lead of President Francois Mitterrand, who deployed army troops to stricken areas across the country, French Premier Jacques Chirac mobilized some 1,800 soldiers to help remove the snow from Paris streets. The government ordered two Paris Metro stations to stay open all night to help shelter an estimated 15,000 homeless men and women...
...different from all the others--the glorious summer of the Liberation? The next time he writes the essay, Cat knows what kind of drivel to spill out: the joy of a good boy who sees the revival of the City of Light, who rejoices at the sight of the Eiffel Tower rising into the sky, the Arc de Triomphe hung with streamers. What with a finishing touch of a quote from Hugo, Cat gets the highest mark in the class...
MOST COMPLICATED RESTAURANT CONSTRUCTION If you think you have trouble moving, consider this dilemma: dismantling the old restaurant in Paris' Eiffel Tower (a replacement was installed), numbering the 11,000 pieces, recording them on videotape, then packing and shipping them to New Orleans, there to be reassembled. Price tag for the transplanted Le Restaurant de la Tour Eiffel, which opened Dec. 12 on St. Charles Avenue: $3.3 million. Then consider what all that can do to the price of a lamb chop...
...Eiffel Tower of Paris has always looked a bit like an oil derrick. Now a consortium of French energy companies led by Societe Nationale Elf Aquitaine is exploring the possibility that there may actually be oil under the city's venerable streets. Last week four 14 1/2-ton trucks completed a series of seismic tests that took them lumbering down the Champs Elysees and past such landmarks as the Arc de Triomphe, the Place de la Concorde and the Louvre...
...company bought the site and raised on it a railroad station with a built-in hotel, serving as the terminus of lines from southwestern France. Its architect, Victor Laloux (1850-1937), did not approach the genius of men like Charles Garnier, who created the Paris Opera, and Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, France's supreme engineer. But he gave the Gare d'Orsay all he had, and that, backed by the decorative and engineering resources of fin de siecle Paris, was quite a lot: a vast semicircular barrel vault of iron and glass, stretching 150 yards from end to end, with elliptical...