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(2 of 2) Like generations of Paris limonadiers before them, the Costes brothers made their way up from the Auvergne, a poor region some 700 km south of Paris. Since the 1830s, Auvergnats have dominated the café trade: they made their living hauling coal up apartment stairs while their...
Making Up Is Hard To Do U.S. Members of the U.N. Security Council spent the weekend considering Washington's draft resolution on a multinational peacekeeping force for Iraq. The American proposal, prompted by the deteriorating security situation in Iraq and spiraling costs of reconstruction, envisages bringing all troops presently in...
"Many fragile people died alone in their homes. These dramas again shed light on the solitude of many of our aged or handicapped citizens." JACQUES CHIRAC, French President, on as many as 10,000 deaths caused by a summer heat wave. Most of the victims were older than 75
Paule de Noinville is a survivor. She has lived through two world wars and, at 92, knows that death snatches people out of this world without pause. So looking back on the torturous heat wave that baked France in 40C (104F) temperatures in August, she is under no illusions about...
AUG. 4 The first records are broken in the southwest, where temperatures reach 41C in the Bordeaux region and on the Atlantic coast. AUG. 10 Patrick Pelloux, head of France's emergency physicians' association, announces that some 50 people have died of heat-related illnesses in the Paris region in...