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Assembly President André Le Troquer had just called for a vote on the ejection of another of the 13 Poujadist Deputies whom an Assembly majority is trying to unseat on electoral technicalities. He signaled one of his presidential secretaries, a diminutive Communist named Robert Manceau, to place the heavy green urns for the voting. Down the aisle clumped Poujadist Damasio. He lumbered up onto the tribune and grabbed little Manceau in a bear...
Abruptly, the situation has changed. Some years ago a French graduate student named Bernard de Fallois told Proustman André Maurois that he was planning a thesis on Proust. De Fallois, with Maurois' help, got permission from Marcel Proust's niece to explore the Master's belongings. Seventy notebooks and "several boxes of torn and detached pages" fell into De Fallois' hands, and he managed to piece together a novel "the existence of which nobody had so much as suspected." Jean Santeuil, written between 1896 and 1900, now appears in English translation for the first time...
Turning the Mirror. The young pioneers reproduced on the following pages took their lead from such European moderns as Kandinsky, Picasso and Paul Klee, and from a slightly less exalted group-Fernand Léger, Jacques Lipschitz, Piet Mondrian, André Masson-who sat out World War II in New York. All brought essentially the same promise: instead of holding a mirror up to nature, art could mirror the inner world of the artist himself. The methods for doing this-abstraction and distortion-were as old as doddering modern art itself (i.e., almost a century), and had already been explored...
...National Assembly's organizing sessions, the Communists politely withdrew their own candidate, aged hack Marcel Cachin, and made possible the speedy election of 71-year-old Socialist André Le Troquer as Assembly president (Speaker). Without their support, he had been a poor third in the voting...
When it comes to putting Frenchmen into the tumbrels of political recrimination, none are more skillful than other Frenchmen. In The Gravediggers of France, in 1944, French Journalist Pertinax (André Géraud) called Paul Reynaud the third gravedigger (after Gamelin and Daladier and before Pétain and Laval). Reynaud now makes an eloquent case for the proposition that, if he helped dig the grave, it was really his political enemies who committed the murder and provided the corpse...