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  • At the Dec. 13 gathering in the square, several shouted out while Mr. Gaboriau, the deputy mayor, said his district city hall was powerless against the larger city of Paris administration.

    Parisians Fight Plans for Gypsy Camp Christina Passariello 2012

  • Mr. Gaboriau has launched a petition, signed by 700 people so far, and will hold a town hall meeting in January to mark the district's opposition.

    Parisians Fight Plans for Gypsy Camp Christina Passariello 2012

  • "We're worried about the future of our neighborhood and the possibility of disturbances," said Pierre Gaboriau, deputy mayor of the 16th district in charge of budget and finances, at a gathering of more than 100 residents and business owners in the square in mid-December.

    Parisians Fight Plans for Gypsy Camp Christina Passariello 2012

  • Wajdi Mouawad's war drama is long -- arguably too long at three hours -- but there are ample reasons why this Canadian play (written in French and translated by Linda Gaboriau) has attracted international attention.

    Forum Theatre's 'Scorched': Rambling play acted with admirable force Nelson Pressley 2010

  • Mr. Gaboriau pointed out that a traveling circus had temporarily occupied the space several years ago.

    Parisians Fight Plans for Gypsy Camp Christina Passariello 2012

  • Mr. Gaboriau, of President Nicolas Sarkozy's conservative Union for a Popular Movement, or UMP party, is pitted against Paris city hall, run by a Socialist-led coalition headed by Mayor Bertrand Delanoë.

    Parisians Fight Plans for Gypsy Camp Christina Passariello 2012

  • The mention of Trilby, George du Maurier's 1894 novel of a singer who falls under the spell of the Hungarian musician Svengali, and Monsieur Lecoq (1869) by Emile Gaboriau, father of the detective story, might tell us of books that were on London's leisure time reading list.

    The woe of an aspiring genius. 2008

  • They end in two long detective-tales like those which M. Gaboriau has popularised, the Rogueries of Dalilah and the Adventures of Mercury

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • My mind made up on this point, I enquired of a leading Melbourne bookseller what style of book he sold most of He replied that the detective stories of Gaboriau had a large sale; and as, at this time, I had never even heard of this author, I bought all his works — eleven or thereabouts — and read them carefully.

    The Mystery of a Hansom Cab 2003

  • Gaboriau _in extremis_, Du Boisgobey suffering from _delirium tremens_.

    The Crimson Blind

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