Word: fauchon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...industrially uniform, like Coca-Cola." In 1966, the Paris chain store Prisunic put three lines of California wines on sale. Some 60,000 bottles gathered dust and derision for several months before being shipped to the provinces, where they bombed again. Only one French retailer, Paris' prestigious Fauchon, now stocks them...
Last winter and spring, the French Maoists firmly established themselves on the outer fringes of the lunatic left with a series of riots, bomb attacks and a daring caviar and foie gras heist in broad daylight at Fauchon, the epicures' haul grocery of Paris. Next, one of their leaders, Alain Geismar, 26, advised that they make it a "hot summer for the bourgeoisie." Shortly before he was hauled off to jail for inciting riots, Geismar made a tape recording in which he urged his comrades to camp in the gardens of private villas, picnic on golf greens and convert...
...Revolution." Chairman Mao warns in his little red book, "is not a dinner party." But at least some would-be revolutionaries disagree. About 30 of Paris' increasingly troublesome Maoists mounted a daylight raid on Fauchon's the epicurean grocery that boasts the Duke of Windsor among its regular customers. Wearing red handkerchiefs and armed with clubs, the raiders poured into Fauchon and began shoveling foie gras and caviar into the pockets of their combat jackets. The staff organized : a counterattack against the gourmet guerrillas. When the Maoists had been driven out, the floor was awash in vintage wine...