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Secret Paris - Rachel Kaplan - Few people know (and that includes many Parisians) that adjacent to the small zoo and amusement park in the Bois de Boulogne a strikingly modern edifice consisting of two opposing and sharply intersecting parallelepipeds, shelters a museum that richly illustrates the occupations, customs and traditions of rural and urban French society dating back to the Gallo-Roman era.

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Letter From Paris - Harriet Welty-Rochefort - Spelling, dinner parties, and in-laws - something for everyone.

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The Champs d'Aviation - Richard Erickson - The Aéro Club celebrates its 100th Birthday Party with aeroplanes along the Champs Elysees. Ric guides us through 100 years of aviation.

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Paris Vendanges - Vineyards in the City - Thirza Vallois - During the month of October, when, in anticipation of Dionysian pleasures, France celebrates the bounty of her earth by way of the "Vendanges", even pollution, traffic, tar-ridden Paris, joins the festivities and has a whale of a time! (This piece is excerpted from Thirza Vallois' book Around and About Paris.)

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French History - October - Events: The Battle of Tours (732); Napoléon exiled to St. Helena (1815); History's first Getaway Car used by thieves in Paris(1901); Births: Diderot (1713) Yves Montand (1921); François Mitterand (1916).

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