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Enveloping Arc. Meanwhile Paris struggled in its hour before liberation. Great fires raged - reportedly the Germans' destruction of their depots. Refugees told of General Koenig's F.F.I, fighting Germans in the streets, of the Germans machine-gunning demonstrators...
Creaking Hinge. But apparently all this was only flank protection. The main effort had been put into a wide arc which swung around the Seventh Army's unhinged left flank. The German Army facing north and west found itself being menaced from the south and east. Its route of escape was a narrow corridor to the east...
...leftish German author of the pow erful novels, Power, The Ugly Duchess, Success, has written a leftish French novel which was inspired by Joan of Arc in somewhat the same way that Franz Werfel's Song of Bernadette was inspired by the Virgin of Lourdes. But Feuchtwanger's inspiration is less successful...
...bloody feet which were blistered by retreat. Most of them were beaten men, but some drunken soldiers shouted: "We're waiting for the Bodies!" Meanwhile Simone, Novelist Feuchtwanger's 16-year-old Burgundian heroine, lay in her attic room poring over the story of St. Joan of Arc. The Maid of Orleans, Simone read, had heard mysterious "voices" bidding her save France by fighting the invader. Soon Simone began to hear the voice of her dead radical father, urging her to do likewise...
...Ballinger thought hard, remembered Joan of Arc, told the story, turned the election in her favor...