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...form made him a tempting target for assassination, and the diehard Secret Army Organization, which despised him for giving up Algeria, was gunning for him. In all, there were at least ten plots and two actual attempts to kill him. Once, on a road near Paris, his black presidential Citroën was riddled with bullets. But De Gaulle and his wife remained sitting erect in the back seat, refusing even to duck. After all, he once wrote: "Adversity attracts the man of character . . . He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility...
Some of Baroche's interviews verge on the implausible: he claims to have found one couple who learned to make love in a tiny Citroën "Deux Chevaux" auto-after they persuaded the man's dog to remain in the back seat. Serious social scientists are not sure that Baroche interviewed a sufficiently wide variety of Frenchmen to reach any valid conclusions. Still, he talked to enough to find one man who asked, "How does it happen that I have never deceived my wife?" then shrugged and answered his own question: "I don't want...
...holiday at week's end. So artful was the camouflage that only a single French newsman remained behind, lounging in the press department of Pompidou's Elysée Palace and flicking through the President's itinerary for a visit to Corsica. Then a stream of Citroën limousines began to disgorge Cabinet ministers for a hastily called meeting late Friday afternoon...
That afternoon Viet Cong bomb squads struck again. In Saigon they drove a shabby bomb-laden Citroën up to a U.S. language school for Vietnamese servicemen. As they fled the auto, the guerrillas gunned down three Vietnamese sentries. Then the car exploded, killing another nine Vietnamese and injuring 67 persons, including 28 U.S. Air Force...
...contrast, things have never been better for Agnelli's Fiat (TIME cover, Jan. 17, 1969). Last year sales reached a record $2.1 billion. Agnelli spurred the trend of consolidation among European automakers by gaining effective control in 1968 of France's Citroën, which makes some of the world's most advanced mass-produced cars. In the long run, Fiat may profit more from Citroën's engineering techniques than from Ferrari's expensive elegance, but Agnelli can take pride in sustaining an incomparable piece of automotive history...