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When Italy stabbed France in the back in 1940, Ambassador André François-Poncet told Mussolini's Foreign Minister and son-in-law, Count Ciano: "Remember, France is immortal! You will pay for this...
...André Malraux, leftist French novelist (Man's Fate, Man's Hope}, veteran of the Spanish Civil War and the 1940 Battle of France, was still in the thick of it - leading his own 4,000-man F.F.I, army in the fighting near Strasbourg. Ranked a lieutenant colonel in the French Army, 49-year-old Malraux, who was once punch-drunk with politics, is now soberly concentrating on military matters: "I cannot see why we French must be so occupied with politics while the Germans are still on French soil." Marlene Dietrich, wearing a fleece-lined...
...some point lost in the mists of metropolitan folklore, Parisians began to use André as a flood meter. When the Seine is low his feet are high above the water level, but, as the river rises, it covers him bit by bit. When his feet get wet, it is bad. When his knees get wet. it is serious. When his thighs get wet, it is dangerous. When his belt gets wet, Paris begins to be flooded. In 1910 André was nearly drowned: the water was up to his neck...
...weeks Paris weather had been like London-rain nearly every day. The Marne, the Oise and the Seine had risen until André stood hip-deep in water. To watching Parisians it seemed that this time André was doomed to drown in the swollen Seine. Quayside storage spaces, where the precious household goods of bombed-out Parisians were kept, were flooded. The muddy waters spread over suburban areas. Worst of all, there was no longer sufficient space under the bridges for the barges to pass with their precious coal cargoes for Parisians, who felt just as frozen as Andr...
...unless more rains came, the flood crest would pass. The Seine would begin to drop down André's stony legs, and within a few weeks coal barges would again arrive. Said the Parisians: "The Zouave, being made of marble, cannot catch pneumonia or be unmanned. But we others, hein...