Word: ronde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discovered in the stately chestnut trees ringing the Rond-point on Paris' Champs Elysées last week; every one would have to be uprooted. Wrote Le Figaro: "Weakened and tormented by polluted air, the hearts of these great trees empty little by little." Frenchmen saw in the words an all too obvious simile for the nation...
...just turning cool in the Rond-Point Mers Sultan when a three-wheeled delivery motorcart pulled up be fore the Café Gonin, crowded with Europeans sipping apéritifs while they waited for the street dancing to begin. Two Moroccan teen-age youths climbed off the motorcycle and walked away. Minutes later, somebody noticed a curl of smoke coming from the motorcycle. Two European youths lifted up the canvas cover and peered in. There was a deafening explosion. Café Gonin's terrace became a mass of writhing, bloody bodies. Six Europeans were dead, 35 wounded...