Paris's Sex Change Operation; Transvestite Prostitutes Given the Boot From Park

"There are none left. They're certainly somewhere, but for the moment, the only thing we can observe is that they're not here," says police spokesman Jean-Marc Ledoux, peering beyond his massive mustache into the darkened emptiness of the Bois de Boulogne.

Can this be? Paris without prostitutes? This is like Washington without the Monument. It's unexpected.

But it's true. Mayor Jacques Chirac's Operation Health Bois de Boulogne has rid the capital's largest park of a key tourist attraction, the 500 or so mostly transvestite prostitutes who worked there.

Concerned…