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In the Luxembourg Gardens, close by the alley where bad-tempered old gentlemen play frenzied croquet every Sunday, a new Punch & Judy show was operating last week with the consent and approval of the Senate of the French Republic. For years the root-te-tooting of the Luxembourg's Guignol has been supplied by a marionettist known as M. Brioché. Recently elderly M. Brioché rang down his little curtain for the last time and died.
The Luxembourg Gardens, once the gardens of sour-faced Marie de' Medici, do not belong to the City of Paris, but to the...
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