Word: hiver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...police leaves were canceled, and for the first time since the Communist riots of 1947, the army was called out to guard "places of strategic importance." In metropolitan Paris the police in one day rounded up 3,000 Algerians and commandeered the Vélodrome d'Hiver, the Madison Square Garden of Paris, as a detention camp...
Bearded Bear Hug. Billy said he would be content to draw 3,000 listeners in fun-loving, nominally Roman Catholic Paris. At his first public meeting, some 9,000 people flocked into the huge Vélodrome d'Hiver (capacity: 20,000) to hear him. Standing beneath a giant Scoreboard, Billy exhorted them, in short, hard-hitting sentences, to "repent, receive Jesus Christ through faith, and surrender and commit everything to Jesus Christ." After each sentence, he waited while U.S.-educated French Baptist Minister Jacques Blocher translated his words into French at the same speed and with the same...