(DOWNLOAD) "Avenue Gabriel (Essay)" by Bart Moon ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Avenue Gabriel (Essay)
- Author : Bart Moon
- Release Date : January 06, 2010
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 58 KB
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Editor's Note: A consular assignment in a major European capital can be dull and bureaucratic or full of adventures. The author seems to have had more than one brush with celebrity while working away at his obligatory tour in consular affairs.--Ed. A self-propelled tourist looking for the American Embassy in Paris today would eventually find himself standing on Avenue Gabriel, a street beginning at the Place de la Concorde and running generally north, parallel to the Champs Elysee on the left. There he would find his objective, an aging matron of no special architectural merit set back about 20 paces from the sidewalk, its most attractive features a brick courtyard fronting the embassy's main entrance and the high, gated fence of finely worked wrought iron surrounding it. His view and his passage, however, would be impeded by a patchwork of temporary fences keeping pedestrians at even greater distance from the building and by a seemingly endless row of whitewashed concrete bollards set on the sidewalk along the entire perimeter of the embassy grounds: silent sentinels designed to keep explosives laden vehicles from crashing through the fencing.