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...modern Paris. Baltard's first pavilion, shaped in stone, was so gross that Napoleon III personally ordered it torn down. The Emperor told Haussmann: "I want big umbrellas. Nothing more." The baron told Baltard to try iron, and this time he caught the spirit. The grace of what marketmen ever afterward called their "parasols" has enchanted generations of Frenchmen...
Would the honor system work in the supermarkets of other nations? Perhaps. But some marketmen are dubious. Says French Supermarketeer Francois Mathey: "If we tried that in France, they would steal us blind. It's not so much that the French are less honest than the Swiss, but the mentality is so different...
...wealth and partly for his excellent connections in the Demo-Christian Party. But the foundation of Nino's respectability was the fact that he was boss of the "Mafia of the Gardens"-the section of the world-famous Sicilian criminal syndicate that "protects" Palermo's fruit marketmen and citrus growers...
...bonito!" roared the marketmen and cut off the dead bull's ears, again just like old times. They sent Antonio Sanchez home with all the cabbages, turnips, beans, he could carry...
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