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Article: Strolling Through the '30s; In the Princes of Boulogne, a Paris Suburb and Open-Air Museum of Modernism
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- The Washington Post
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- October 23, 1988
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My wife and I were obliged to move from our sublet on the Quai
Voltaire, and could not bear to stare down one more smug Latin
Quarter speculator offering a tiny chamber at palace prices.
Magically, as we were nearing lunacy an ad promising succor appeared
in Le Monde, where no one ever seriously looks for apartment rentals.
Thus we took the subway past the limits of the haughty 16th
arrondissement and emerged from the Porte d'Auteuil, headed for Les
Princes of Boulogne.
The Princes is a plain between La Route de la Reine-the Queen's
Road-to St. Cloud and the Bois de Boulogne, where the noblest of
nobles rode to the hunt in the shadow of the fortifications of Paris
(which have since been ...