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...eccentric sister, he dresses in period costume and banishes all evidence of the 20th century from the family's isolated ancestral estate in the Swedish lake country. Jurgens' second wife is Monica Vitti, a sultry charmer who enjoys a casually incestuous relationship with her brother Sébastien (Jean-Claude Brialy) and soon begins cooing with Cousin Eric (Jean-Louis Trintignant...
...dawn rose over Paris early one morning last week, a volley of rifle shots echoed through dank, grim Ivry Fort. Dead before the firing squad sank ex-Lieut. Colonel Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry, 35, convicted ringleader of last summer's abortive attempt to assassinate Charles de Gaulle in the Paris suburb of Petit-Clamart as he was motoring to his country home at Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises.* Though De Gaulle spared two other plotters, he presumably ordered the execution of Bastien-Thiry to discourage other terrorists from further assassination efforts on behalf of the dread Secret Army Organization...
...shooters and looters, a military court last week handed down harsh judgments for the nine captive members of another S.A.O. group which had tried to assassinate De Gaulle in the Paris suburb of Petit-Clamart last August. For the ringleaders, the penalty was death. Ex-Lieut. Colonel Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry heard the sentence impassively, but flinched when the judge added that he would be expelled from the Légion d'Honneur; ex-Lieut. Alain Bougrenet de la Tocnaye was equally impassive as he stood at attention in his army uniform; Jacques Prévost, whose life...
...aiming his submachine gun at the tires, but quite obviously at the passengers.'' To the chauffeur, Boissieu snapped, "Down the middle. Straight ahead!" Then he turned around, begged De Gaulle, who was still sitting upright, to bend down. De Gaulle obliged by leaning forward slightly. Defendant Bastien-Thiry airily dismissed as "technical incidents" the additional evidence that the car windows were shattered by bullets, a motorcycle cop's helmet drilled through, and De Gaulle's head missed only by inches. If they had captured De Gaulle, the conspirators intended to hide him away in a villa...
...Council of the Resistance planned to appoint a new head of state: none other than De Gaulle's present Finance Minister, an aristocrat named Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. Protesting loudly. Giscard d'Estaing said it was all nonsense, that he had never even met Bastien-Thiry and had no links with either the Secret Army or the Council of the Resistance...