Word: quartier
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Most of his daytime dresses stopped at the calf, about where they had been two years ago. One black silk number called the Quartier Latin barely covered the model's knees. Dior, who boasts he does the biggest U.S. business in Paris, thought he knew what U.S. women wanted...
...millionth French repatriate returned from Germany to Paris last week. Most of the million wore ragged clothes and battered shoes. At first they stood gossiping, joking, exchanging experiences and sharing cigarets in front of the Maison des Prisonniers (Prisoners' Reception Center) in Paris' Quartier de l'Europe. But soon small raiding forces, guided by individual "reconnaissance units" of ex-prisoners, peeled off to obtain by "peaceful infiltration" of food and clothing stores the necessities promised (but still unprovided) by the Government. Minister of Prisoners & Deportees Henri Frenay and Food Minister Paul Ramadier had good intentions but lacked...
...dark and narrow streets of Marseille last week men and women, pimps and tarts and petty thieves, dug out what weapons they could find and prepared to defend the ugly, dirty little houses which were their homes. The Germans were coming to the Quartier Reserve in the Old Harbor area, and they were not seeking pleasure. They came to throw 40,000 citizens of Marseille out of their homes, which they had ordered razed so that the waterside could be fortified against the Allied invasion they feared...
Chief Terrorist was beak-nosed General Heinrich von Stulpnagel, German commander of Occupied France, ably and professionally supported by veteran French and Nazi police. Early-bird Parisians were puzzled by public notices announcing tem porary closing of the quartier's important subway stations. The entire Xle Arron dissement was surrounded by German troops. They began arresting people whole sale. The victims were supposed to be Jews, but this was not the Jewish district of Paris. In a house-to-house, room-by-room roundup, soldiers seized every "Jew" aged 17 to 50, bundled 6,000 off to nearby concentration...
...sighed. He would resort to his perennial remedy for his perennial nostalgia. Tonight he would wander up to the Geographic Institute and see Sacha Guitry in "Perles de la Couronne." He would pretend he was in his little "theatre du quartier." He would sit back in the beguiling darkness and, full of the "light sane joy of life," he would wink knowingly at some bespectacled Radcliffe girl...