Word: elyse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In the Champs Elysées, the police asked the paraders to disperse. They refused. Then one of the young Communists up front yelled the old revolutionary slogan: "Aux barricades!" Demonstrators grabbed wooden trestles placed along the sidewalks to contain the crowds and laid them across the road. Iron chairs...
Above the Rond-Point subway station the parade was met by a cordon of police. An inspector reminded the leaders that the law permitted no demonstration in the upper half of the Champs Elysées without special authorization. To reach the Arc de Triomphe, they must make a detour...
One afternoon last week, although it was a weekday, Paris looked like Kansas on Sunday. Some 75% of the city's shops and cafes were closed-the junk dealer at the Bastille, the exclusive hosier in the Rue de Rivoli, the cheap stationer in the Faubourg St. Antoine, the...
Left, somewhere along the Champs Elysées, by Nina Conan Doyle, daughter-in-law of Sherlock Holmes's creator: a jeweled brooch, shaped like a hand, with rubies on the fingernails and a sprinkling of diamond stars and emeralds. Nina-who used to be Georgian Princess Nina Mdivani...
In the Rue de Tilsitt, off the Champs-Elysées, garbage is normally collected on one side of the street by Henri Paul Sangnier, on the other by Paul Dornand. Last fortnight, Sangnier struck; Dornand did not. The Rue de Tilsitt's housewives solved the problem by leaving...