Word: panier
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...Italian Renaissance tapestries have doubled; in the past two years, the price of French 18th century furniture has quadrupled. And for the housewife or hot-dog connoisseur who really cares, a niche a chien made for Mark Antoinette brought $15,375 in Paris, and a Cézanne watercolor, Panier de Fruits, went for $16,000 in New York...
Next day at 8 a.m. Davis was back. He laid his camping equipment on the sidewalk and got ready for a siege. Presently le panier a salade (the paddy wagon; literally, salad basket) picked him up and hauled him off to the mairie (town hall) of the sixth arrondissement. There he talked things over with urbane André Michel, commissaire of the arrondissement. The conversation went like this...
Across from the police station was Le Panier Fleuri (The Flower Basket), "the neighborhood bordel run by Madame Mariette." The other corner was occupied by a laundry "which employed three hardworking girls and also served as a clandestin. That is to say, men who found it banal to patronize the orthodox establishment could, if they were known...
Author Paul also has lively and knowing accounts of the local Reds (Pierre Vautier became a devout Communist), and of Le Panier Fleuri, its personnel and practices. Interspersed are bright observations on French art, cooking, music, writers, women and politics...
...TIME'S story was off base. It confused Léon and Léonard Trépanier and as a result drew the wrong conclusions. TIME apologizes to all concerned and regrets any disparagement of the loyalty and patriotism of French Canadians...