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Letter From Paris - Harriet Welty-Rochefort - In the USA, a Big Mac is something to eat. In France it is the living symbol of everything the French repudiate, despise and scorn about the U.S. The French shrug their collective Gallic shoulders at this THING between a bun, this industrialized piece of meat measured to the millimeter and scrunched in between two pieces of white sponge no self-respecting baguette eater would deign to touch.

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Down & Out in Paris; Orwell's Fact or Fiction? - Richard Erickson - In the spring of 1928 Orwell moved from the Portobello Road of London's East End, to a cheap hotel in the Rue du Pot de Fer, just off the Rue Mouffetard in Paris' Quartier Latin.

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Paris Métro Etiquette - Paul Jensi - Seven basic lessons about life in the Paris Métro that you already knew but never wrote down.

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French History - September - Events: First republic declared (1792); Lascaux Caves discovered in southern France (1940); First balloon flight with live creatures (1783); Births: Jean-Léon Jaurès (1859); Antonin Artuad (1896); Louis XIV, the Sun King (1638).

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