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Letter From Paris - Harriet Welty-Rochefort - Leaving the City is part of living in the place. Harriet takes off toward the south and files this report.

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Made in France, or so it says on the label - Andrew Jack - A review of the current exposition Made in France: 1947 - 1997; Cinquante ans de création en France running until 29 September at the Centre Pompidou.

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A Gypsy Rendez-vous - Françoise Giovannangeli - There are many ethnic groups living in and around Paris. One of them is comprised of Les gens du voyage - gypsies.

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The Centre of Midsummer - Richard Erickson - Summer is coming to a close in Paris. The line at the boulangerie is longer, the kids are getting ready for school, the métro is getting crowded again. Ric is writing about it from - we're not really sure ourselves. He is getting his vacation in somewhere, somehow, but then again maybe he is not.

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Les mille et une vies d'André Malraux - Eric Gignoux - Exposition Online: - Malraux, c'est comme un personnage de roman qui ferait soudain irruption dans la vie réelle, un personnage tonitruant et improbable, tour à tour dandy, aventurier, guérillero, écrivain, esthète, ministre.... Malraux, c'est Don Quichotte qui chevauche notre siècle, ses espoirs, ses errements, ses combats.

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Le Grand Paris - Melinda S. Blake -
Melinda takes a memorable walk around Paris with a stranger.

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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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Image of the Month; Mémorial des Martyrs de la Déportation - Copyright (c) 1997 Norman Barth - At the eastern most tip of the Ile de la Cité is the Memorial to the Martyrs of the Deportation, dedicated to the memory of French deported during the Second World War. Despite the somberness of the place, a running carefree child gives us a lighter moment, and hope for a better future.

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