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Marne-La-Vallee
National Review, March 28, 1986
MARNE-LA-VALLEE
Disneyville The choice of the Marne Valley, close to Paris, as the site of the Disney entertainment center in Europe--Disneyville--has drawn a rash of hostile letters and editorials in the French press. One letter writer in Le Monde compares Disneyville to an industrial disaster in terms of cultural pollution. Another denounced it as a "sanctuary of fast food and gadgets parachuted at the gates of what was once the City of Light." A third proposed a counterweight: the establishment of "Europe Houses" in the United States, which would present European painting, music, and cultural lectures. "But," added the correspondent forebodingly, "will the Americans who come to hear and see these things prove as numerous as the masses of Europeans who will be stupefying themselves in the tinseled uproar of this leisure park?"
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