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The leading playwrights of the period were Eugène Ionesco, born in Romania, who revolutionized Paris theater with his 1950 play The Bald Soprano (1950); Samuel Beckett, born in Ireland, who combined irony and burlesque in Waiting for Godot (1953); and Jean Genet, who had spent time in prison, who wrote provocative plays about sex, crime and ...
In 1950, the government began a new large-scale project to construct apartment blocks for low-income Parisians, called HLMs (habitations à loyers modérés), usually on the edges of the city or in the suburbs. [193]
12 February – Pro-communist riots in Paris. 9 April – Notre-Dame Affair, Lettrist movement anti-Catholic intervention. 3 June – Herzog and Lachenal of the French Annapurna expedition become the first climbers to reach the summit of an 8,000-metre peak. 15–18 September – Battle of Đông Khê, French defeat in First Indochina War.
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16 March – Opening of the Cluny Museum dedicated to the history of medieval Paris. 14 November – First crèche, or day care center, is opened at Chaillot. 1845 Ring of new fortifications around the city, (the Thiers wall), begun in 1841, completed. [116] 27 April – First electric telegraph line tested between Paris and Rouen.