PETIT PARIS
OLD FRENCH QUARTER IN LONDON. There is a part' of London which has become Petit Paris. It is the old French quarter close to Soho Square. One street in particular sees numbers of French people gather there every evening and stand about in knots. Here the French sailors, with the red pompom on their hats are to be seen with other young Frenchmen serving with the British'army. Family groups can be seen going to the small French restaurants. Many of the newspaper shops display French publications, and everyone seems to have “France,” the daily French paper. The throng is a gay one, and yet with a touch of sadness, for so many have friends and relatives in France of whom they have had no news. The street is a sort of “news exchange” and occasionally there is the note of tragedy when someone asks news of a soldier, last seen “somewhere in France.” For a moment the exiles feel it is in a way a return to their beloved France with the echo of French voices around them.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 July 1941, Page 5
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180PETIT PARIS Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 July 1941, Page 5
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