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When the royal hunt of Mme. de Maintenon was turned into a piece of popular fiction in The King's Way (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; 497 pages; $15.95), it reigned for 80 weeks on France's bestseller list. Françoise Chandernagor, 38, a French judge, has been more fortunate than most first novelists in the wealth of sources available for her imaginative reconstruction. She has drawn from the writings of two of France's great literary stylists and keenest chroniclers of the age, Mme. de Sévigné and the Due de Saint-Simon, as well...
...subcontinent. When his huffing, puffing and pleading did not blow the colonial walls down, armed Indian nationalists (often Communist-led) began to stir up revolts in the enclaves, and Nehru gave their activity the kind of silence that implies approval. France let three of its tiny colonies go (Chandernagor, Mahe and Yanaon), and last week the French Foreign Office let it be known that the last two, Pondicherry and Karikal, would be ceded to India within "the next few weeks." These small faraway colonies were no longer of strategic, economic or sentimental importance to France (TIME, April...
...Pondichéry, Chandernagor, Karikal, Mahe and Yanaon, all but Mabé on India's east coast...
...Governor Louis Bouvin of the five minuscule colonies of French India (Pondichéry, Karikal, Chandernagor, Mahé, Yanaon; total pop. 300,353) declared their loyalty to De Gaulle...
...French Near East Army in Syria, Frenchmen in Indo-China, threatened by Japan (see p. 28}, in Shanghai, in Martinique and Guadeloupe in the West Indies, St. Pierre and Miquelon off Newfoundland, Chandernagor in India-large groups and tiny minorities alike-declared they would fight on beside Britain...
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