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Article: Have you ever been to a salon de l'agriculture?
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- March 1, 1984
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Have you ever been to a salon de l'agriculture?
The first week of March, the cars of the Paris Metro bound toward Mairie d'Issy fill with tweed-coated men, their faces ruddy from working outside. At the Porte de Versailles station, they jostle off to the exposition, leaving the pallid Parisian straphangers to reflect that spring is officially here; the Salon International de l'Agriculture has opened.
The huge show fills the vest halls and spills onto the surrounding grounds. There are rows of gleaming tools and equipment for the mechanized farm, beauty contests for every imaginable two-and four-legged domestic creature, and finally, in an immense food ...