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Paris (May 1)

These are the Military Police that were all over (no kidding, there were bus-loads of them on every street) who were, we speculated, making sure the political demonstration did not get out of hand. My guess is that they were also making sure the demonstrators did not personally deport people.

FRANCE | Tuesday, 1 May 2007 | Views [210]

These are the Military Police that were all over (no kidding, there were bus-loads of them on every street) who were, we speculated, making sure the political demonstration did not get out of hand. My guess is that they were also making sure the demonstrators did not personally deport people.

This is place Vendome. It has a lot of expensive jewelry and perfume stores lining it. Other than that, there isn't a lot to say.

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Place de la Concorde as quite a bit of History associated with it. It used to be named place de Louis XV, but then the revolution happened and it was changed to place de la revolution and held the guillotine. I think it used to get pretty bloody. After that was all over they changed it to plce de la concorde. Place de la concorde also keeps a big obelisk (like in this picture) that was given to France by Egypt in 18 something. We couldn't figure out why. I guess Egypt just wanted to show it liked France. They're friends, apparently. Also, Place de la concorde is right in the middle of evertyhing important. It is on the

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