Word: villacoublay
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...after Geneva, Mendès landed at Villacoublay airport in his French air force DC-3. He ran his fingers through his wife's poodle cut, then kissed her. He declined to review a guard of honor, because: "It's hardly the occasion for that sort of thing." He ordered his car along side streets into Paris, in case the people were lining the main roads. But Mendès need not have bothered. There was relief that the war in Indo-China was ended-nothing more. Fewer than 250 Parisians waited outside Mendès' Quai...