Tag: St.-Ouen, France

Even Before the Olympics, a Victory Lap for a Fast-Moving French Mayor

The mayor grew up in a building so decrepit — filthy hallways, no private toilets, no showers — that his friends in nearby concrete towers pitied him. Five decades later, that building — in St.-Ouen, a Paris suburb — is a distant memory, and in its place rises France’s Olympic pride: the athletes’ village, with […]

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