Word: marceau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before leaving Paris on the afternoon of November 5, we-my wife and I-stopped to say good-by to our old friend, the proprietor of the large cafe in the Place Marceau. We expected to find him rather sad at our departure; but no-he was all smiles: "You will be coming back before long," he said, "and to a happier France! For I have just heard good news. I have just heard a German soldier grumbling: 'Du lieber Gott, I greatly fear that Roosevelt has been re-elected!' There is a high moral authority in question...