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Graham Clode sent me the above illustration from the 23 January 1952 edition of La France, a British paper published for school pupils learning French. It was still published in the following decade when I was wrestling with Whitmarsh’s First French Course.
So, here goes: ‘Without stopping, a competitor asks the brilliantly uniformed Mayor of Montmartre for a light for his ciggy’. Can anyone identify the moped/vélomoteur with its sidecar?
Paul Hornby
First published, June 2002