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Cat especially misses his older brother Antoine, who likes explaining things as much as Cat likes asking questions. When Antoine shoots three German officers and runs away to join the maquis, the Gestapo questions and deports his parents. Cat reels with uncomprehending shock. He runs away from the smug, bourgeois...
As in The Sorrow and the Pity, Marcel Ophuls' documentary of the French Occupation, the novel's barrage of impressions and opinions assaults, even implicates, the reader. Derisive voices chant an anti-Vichy song. A housewife prepares makeshift tea out of water and carrot tops. The odor of filth rises...
Foreign intrusion has frequently spurred student reaction. When Japan presented the Chinese government with its "21 demands" in 1915, which included the ceding of the northeastern province of Shandong to Tokyo, thousands of Chinese students studying abroad returned home to protest what they saw as a humiliating affront to the...
Many immediately denounced the reforms as "elitist," charging that they restricted educational opportunities. French students, traditionally eager to man the barricades, have protested attempts at school reform before, including staging a revolt in 1968 that badly shook the government of Charles de Gaulle. But unlike the 1968 rioters, who were...
Meanwhile, Orsay found its director at the Beaubourg: Francoise Cachin, a brilliant, Sorbonne-educated art historian whose specialty is Manet. The first issue she had to settle was the scope of the museum. What did 19th century mean? There was no way the Louvre was going to surrender its masterpieces...