Word: ronde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Traffic was thick on Paris' imposing Champs Elysées. A sleek Cadillac bearing U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson swung around the Rond-Point, headed for the French Foreign Ministry on the Quai d'Orsay. Round the other side, headed in the opposite direction, sped a Citroën bearing French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman. The Frenchman's chauffeur slammed on his brakes as another Citroën, with Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak inside, cut across his bow. A stately Rolls-Royce carrying Britain's Ernest Bevin slid in behind Schuman...
Above the Rond-Point subway station the parade was met by a cordon of police. An inspector reminded the leaders that the law permitted no demonstration in the upper half of the Champs Elysées without special authorization. To reach the Arc de Triomphe, they must make a detour...
...France there were no balloons for sale at the Rond Point on the Champs Elysées, but youngsters still sailed their boats on the Luxembourg Gardens pond. In the southern provinces housewives hung wooden-bead curtains over the doors to keep out the flies...