The Citroën DS (pronounced in French day-ess, like déesse, or goddess) is about to celebrate its 50th birthday! Hard to believe.
Check it out :
Here are two fun links,in English:
http://vintagecars.about.com/od/historygreatmoments/a/citroen_ds.htm
http://www.id-ds.com/Pages/Citroen/DS.Barthes.html
The latter is an appreciation by Roland Barthes. Sample quote: “There are in the D.S. the beginnings of a new phenomenology of assembling, as if one progressed from a world where elements are welded to a world where they are juxtaposed and hold together by sole virtue of their wondrous shape, which of course is meant to prepare one for the idea of a more benign Nature.”
I assure you, without having read the original, that the translator was faithful to it.
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