Word: ouen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris once ordered a roundup of vagrants. The police herded together a motley crowd of itinerant peddlers, rag and iron merchants, sidewalk salesmen. Loaded down with their bundles, dragging handcarts behind them, they straggled past Montmartre, cut through the Porte de Clignancourt and onto the plain of Saint-Ouen, where the army occasionally held maneuvers. Here the evicted peddlers settled down, offered their trinkets for sale to passersby. When the army seemed not to object, they put up awnings over their merchandise, built flimsy wooden booths. They sold everything from ormolu clocks to cracked washbasins, and one of their most...
Golden Eggs. But the suburbs of Paris have slowly closed in on the Flea Market. Bulldozers appeared on the old Saint-Ouen parade ground. Four big housing developments rose 14 stories above the plain. Schools, children's playgrounds, sport fields, tree-lined avenues, a hospital annex are planned-and the Flea Market...
Until last week, the tiny (pop. 570) Channel Island of Sark had held only one general election in the 385 years since Queen Elizabeth granted it to Helier de Carteret, Seigneur of St. Ouen in Jersey. Sark's affairs have been administered by a hereditary seigneur and a Chief Pleas (parliament) composed of hereditary landholders. Sark's one gesture toward democracy came in 1922 when the island government took the drastic step of adding twelve elected deputies to its 34-man parliament. Once elected, the new deputies settled into their seats and Sark settled happily back into...