Word: neuf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Elizabeth and Philip glide along the Seine on a royal barge, they will be sung at by 60 separate groups of folk singers in native costume on the Pont Louis-Philippe and serenaded by 500 little boys in red surplices from the Pont Neuf. As the barge nears the Ile de la Cité, over Notre Dame will flash a mammoth display of pinwheels, Roman candles and flares, featuring (for the first time in pyrotechnic history) heliotrope skyrockets...
...Rouyn, Quebec, the French-language Pays Neuf (circ. 2,700) proudly calls itself "A Weekly Paper with Life." Last week life was so quiet in Rouyn (pop. 8,808) that Pays Neuf published a Page One apology, putting into words what many a newsman has often felt. Said the paper: "The weekend was so quiet everywhere that putting out a newspaper this week was far from interesting. We believe that this issue won't please our readers much, but really it is not our fault . . . We are going through a barren period, and people do not seem disposed...