Word: quartier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...change in France, essentially, is from small to large, from individual to mass, from the charm of the village and the quartier to the noisy uniformity of the modern city. It is not a pleasant transition, but it is nonetheless inevitable. It is also a transition that De Gaulle did not understand, could not cope with and refused to abet. It made him, in a sense, no longer pertinent...
...democratiques ("Referendum -- voter sa chaine et son boulet."), anarchisme ("L'emancipation de l'homme sera totale ou ne sera pas."), foi en l'action directe ("L'aboutissement de toute pensee c'est le pave" -- les multiples courants de la pensee socialiste franeaise semble se ranimer derriere les barricades du quartier latin...
Looking like a Dauphine that has just swallowed a Cadillac, the hero tools home to the alley he lives in: hardly room to park. Then he takes half the quartier out for a spin; runs out of gas. Next day he drives to work. When the boss gets a load of that showboat parked next to his own heap, he fires the hero on the spot. Two days later, Dhéry gets a new job as a chauffeur: his boss is the mistress, who promptly locks the poor lunk in the trunk, drives by the wife's house...