Word: rue
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jouhaux and his four non-Communist lieutenants on the C.G.T.'s executive board submitted their resignations. Then they moved out of the C.G.T.'s, yellow limestone headquarters on the Rue La Fayette and the four lieutenants set up shop in a grey two-story building on the Rue Mademoiselle, flanked by a bakery and a barbershop. Jouhaux refused to take the top post. He may change his mind, but if he does not, the likeliest leader is small, dark, shy Robert Bothereau, 51, a metal worker and longtime Jouhaux follower...
...week the iron-gated entrances to the mines of Sains were locked. Outside the gates a striker had planted a tricolor flag, which drooped in the grey air. In Sains, as elsewhere in France, men wanted to work; in Sains they could not. In a tavern on the Grande Rue they discussed the extraordinary leader of the town's back-to-work movement: the Abbé Georges Lorent, priest of the local church, also the mayor of Sains-en-Gohelle...
...Rue de Tilsitt, off the Champs-Elysées, garbage is normally collected on one side of the street by Henri Paul Sangnier, on the other by Paul Dornand. Last fortnight, Sangnier struck; Dornand did not. The Rue de Tilsitt's housewives solved the problem by leaving all the garbage cans on Dornand's side. For several days Dornand did two men's work, Sangnier none...
...Cover) At No. 5 rue de Solférino, on Paris' Left Bank, there is a shabby old building, not far from the decayed elegance of the boulevard St. Germain and only a stone's throw from the grey stone pile of the National Assembly. Although three or four young bodyguards, who look like cyclists or soccer players, lounge at the entrance, there is nothing outside the building to identify it-no plaque, no flag, no Cross of Lorraine. No. 5 rue de Solférino is the headquarters of Charles de Gaulle's Rassemblement du Peuple...
...Camille Bombois is one of Paris' best-selling "primitive" (self-taught) painters. He lives with his wife and their canary in a cosily cluttered little house on the Rue Emile-Desvaux, painting steadily and tidily far into the night, by the light of a big electric lamp. Sometimes he takes a day off to explore the countryside around Paris, armed with a camera. Most of his pictures, including the nudes, are painted from photographs. "I can't be bothered with models," says Bombois, "and anyway my studio is too small for that kind of business...