Paris
The Mission Office sent staffers to Orly to pick us up and to deliver us to La Mission Française at 3, rue de Lota, in the 16th arrondissement.

I do recall that I was startled to see Parisian flics (cops) with mitraillettes (automatic weapons) on what seemed to be every street corner. Seems there had been an assassination attempt on President Charles de Gaulle that morning, and things were kinda tense.

Rue de Lota, Paris (XVIième)
That day, 18 October 1961, this place became one of my life’s principal loci. The main front door opened on the step extending onto the sidewalk in the foreground at left. Wish I had more and better pictures of it. In 1963, my office would be visible through the two ground-floor windows at far left. The President’s Office was immediately above; you can just see its windows on the second floor.
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