Word: tabac
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Dates: during 2003-2003
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...does one get on a plane to Israel without a ticket? It’s Sunday and Paris is shuttered, the airline offices included. Last night I had to wait online with nicotine-addicted Parisians for an hour just to get a phone card at the only tabac on the Champs Elysees open late. That was so I could call the U.S. and hear my father, frantically packing for his own last-minute trip to Israel, tell me that my grandmother, after being sick for only two weeks, was being resuscitated...
...might be more latte than Left Bank, but Starbucks, the world's leading coffee shop, looks ready to take on France's café culture. Two years after landing elsewhere on the Continent, the Seattle-based retailer is taking France's coffee-drinking traditions - either standing up at the tabac or stretched out after a long lunch - head on. With its first outlet set to open early next year, the company is confident it can sell froth to the French. "France has a very special relationship with coffee," says Franck Esquerré, managing director of Starbucks Coffee France. "The country...