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The group’s slogan, “Sous les pavés, la plage!”

From Washington Post • Oct. 27, 2022

He believes the artist is referencing the student uprising in Paris in 1968, which had the slogan "sous les pavés, la plage!"

From BBC • Aug. 9, 2021

Things in “L’Écume” that seem exceptional to us, or to a bunch of idealistic students rallying, in 1968, behind the Vianesque slogan “Sous les pavés, la plage!”

From The New Yorker • Aug. 12, 2014

Item, 4 knights, armed, keeping the sepulchre, with their weapons in their hands; that is to say, 2 axes and 2 spears, with 2 pavés.

From Notes and Queries, Number 25, April 20, 1850 by Various

The old pavés are beginning to give way, however, and we actually got a bit of terre within six posts of Paris.

From Recollections of Europe by Cooper, James Fenimore