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Because of the commanding role of the state in the French economy, such moves are not viewed as unusual by ordinary businessmen. One consequence of the functionary traffic, says Political Scientist Jean Blondel, author of The Government of France, is that "the private sector finds itself intellectually dependent on the civil service," rather than the other way around...
...which long since has had the edge on British austerity. And while the British festival . . . has resulted in the city on the Thames having a little more bounce than usual, it still makes the British capital a road company of Paris, so far as esprit is concerned . . . The Rue Blondel maisons de tolerance have long since been outlawed, [but] the prosties [on the streets] are as surprising in their pert good looks and simple good taste in clothes as in the plenitude of numbers...
...also said to have asked that Italians in the French African protectorate of Tunisia be given special privileges and that France pledge not to conscript native troops for her armies. Further conversations between Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano and the French Charge d'Affaires in Rome, Jules Blondel, were temporarily out of the question...