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From: AP Online
Date: 20041215
Author:INGRID ROUSSEAU, Associated Press Writer

INGRID ROUSSEAU, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
12-15-2004
Dateline: PARIS

An undated computer image released by Seura, of the areal view of the future face of Les Halles quarter in the heart of Paris designed by French architect David Mangin. Les Halles, a crowded commercial neighborhood immortalized in an 1874 Emile Zola novel but now shunned as an urban eyesore, is being given a new life with an ambitious project to turn it into a user-friendly "work of art." Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe, announced the choice of Mangin's project, called "A Roof in a Garden," on Wednesday Dec. 15, 2004. ...

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