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It is probable that a book modestly entitled Lettre aux Anglais (Letter to the English), of which the second French edition has just been published in Rio de Janeiro (it is not yet available in English), contains the first grand polemic produced by a Christian writer in World War II...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Heroic Christianity | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

French caricaturists like Debucourt and Vernet were more delicate if less vigorous draftsmen, though they early showed a fondness for scatological as well as lubricous humor. To such a gross commentary as Rowlandson's The Arch Duchess Marie Louise going to have her Nap (showing the future Empress of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Low's Forebears | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

André Maurois, like a week-end guest who hopes to be asked again, is unfailingly gracious about England and the English. This half-loaf appreciation of Dickens is sliced thin, á L'Anglais, buttered on the right side. But U. S. readers who like whole-wheat will raise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pecksniff or Poet? | 2/25/1935 | See Source »

Now all U. S. divorce suits will be heard by a special section of the Fourth Civil Tribunal, presided over by Rieul Paisant, expert on international and U. S. state laws, who speaks English comme un Anglais. Thorough examination of all applications is to result under the new regime and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Stiffer Divorces | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

As the lean, starvation War years passed, Mme. Belmont-Gobert was obliged to take her French neighbors into the secret of who hid behind her left-hand wardrobe door. Loyal, they did not betray her to the Germans, who paid well for such secrets. Instead the French villagers sent food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Left-hand Door | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

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