Word: quotidien
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...running down the stained- glass windows," says Christian Dupavillon, director of patrimony for the French Ministry of Culture. Even the tourist industry is alarmed. "Will we have to create a Notre Dame II similar to the replica they were forced to build at Lascaux?" asked the trade daily Le Quotidien de Tourisme in an editorial...
...CRASH, headlines the newspaper Le Quotidien, as local share prices stay flat for the day. The government postpones plans to sell shares in Matra, a giant state-owned defense and electronics firm...
Those who do get in will usually confront a scene designed to stir the imagination. From the shark tank at Area to Danceteria's "Wuthering Heights" elevator, the purpose of the physical accoutrements is to draw the clubgoer out of quotidien life and into a netherworld of unusual activity. The nightclub's ideal role is no longer to provide singles with potential partners or to satiate the hungry dancer with the charm of the bass. Though there is concern with sex and song here, these clubs, more than anything else, attempt to capture and define the sub-culture that...
...OPPOSITION TRIUMPHS! crowed the headlines of the antigovernment Paris daily Le Quotidien de Paris. The assessment was a shade presumptuous, perhaps, and a trifle premature, but not entirely misleading. In last week's elections for general councilors in roughly half of France's 3,848 cantons, or voting districts, not only had the conservative opposition won and the ruling Socialists lost, but the far right had won big and the far left had lost badly. In all, the established conservative coalition claimed 49% of the votes, while the maverick, ultrarightist National Front party scored an impressive 8.7%. By contrast...
...time when Franco-American relations are already strained over Chad and the pummeling that the French franc has received from the dollar, Perkins' electioneering ploy seemed to be a gratuitous blow to Gallic pride. "Parisians do not cry nightly with eyes bathed in tear gas," sniped Le Quotidien de Paris. "The number of Americans in Paris this August is proof of that...