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...NICOLAS DUPONT-AIGNAN...
...well run for the presidency of the party at its next general convention in November. If he doesn't run, he'll certainly put up a "sarkoziste" for that post, running against a Chirac loyalist. And that doesn't begin to exhaust the currents within the ump. Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, 43, for example, says he wants to lead the party back to its Gaullist roots. "The President's positions on the constitution and on Turkey are untenable - the party doesn't want to go with him," he says. "We need to put France first." Many younger conservatives, though...
...Artagnan, hero of Dumas' The Three Musketeers, is to be honored by the citizens of Auch in Gascony by the erection of a statue. D'Artagnan, Captain of the King's Musketeers, was, in reality, Charles de Baatz Castelmore, born at Meymes, near Aignan...
...Aignan, Margouet-Meymes, and Sabazan, with the friendly little villages all about, how Mr. Hudson makes them speak! Not only to each other, with bonfires, as on St. John's Eve, but to the reader, through the clatter of sabots on their hard white streets, through the children's voices between the plastered walls of their homes. Nothing of great importance has ever happened in Aignan, and nothing ever will. Even the cinema which the little doctor projects never reaches realization. And Tarbes Toulouse, Bayonne remain the measure of things...
...sake of Aignan we are willing to forgive Mr. Hudson his hero and heroine. After all, he has to sell his book, and without them how could he make "Abbe Pierre" possible? There must be, we know, "the rich happiness of young love striving through crowding difficulties to the fullest measure of attainment". People expect it. Just as they expect a certain amount of hacking at "the roots of human nature...
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