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...Cinq Ans Après Ah, yes, I wrote "The Purple...
...People of France). Last week at a fervent national council of his party in Paris, complete with the Cross of Lorraine, the V-for-victory sign of World War II, and chants of "De Gaulle to power!", the general proclaimed: "Once again, we shall be called in at moins cinq''-(meaning "five minutes of," the French equivalent of "the eleventh hour"). The Gaullists still believed themselves to be the wave of the future. Some of their former cronies among the Popular Republicans, like ex-Premier Georges Bidault, were in favor of an alliance with the RPF. Only then...
Paris fight fans, who gather at a tawdry nightclub called the Club des Cinq, heard the news at 5 a.m. Georges Carpentier, a not so galvanizing Gaul who once suffered deeply at the hands of Jack Dempsey, slapped the nightclub manager so vigorously on the back that the manager passed out and had to be revived with his own champagne...
Like everything else in Paris, the Club des Cinq, at the foot of Montmartre, was down at heel. The decor-very modern—was shabby; the champagne-very expensive-was poor. The worn-looking, faded singer who came on half an hour after midnight matched the setting well. She had frizzled brown hair, a little black dress and cork-soled shoes. She was called La Piaf (Parisian argot for sparrow...
...official spokesman of the Free French regime, original arrangements for a discussion restricted to members of the College France Forever unit have been expanded to include a larger audience and movies in tonight's program. In addition a special showing will be presented next Wednesday of "Iis Etaient Cinq" with Jean Gabin, and the proceeds of this performance will go to buy a second ambulance for the American Field Service serving in Egypt...