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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...balloting (the ninth since liberation), the voters chose some 85,000 electors, who in turn will elect part of the Council of the Republic, which replaces the old Senate. The machinery for creating this body is among the most formidably complex ever devised, even by the French, whose vaunted clarté is not at its best in election laws. The concierge in TIME's Paris Bureau said: "I am not voting tomorrow because I wouldn't understand what I was doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Happy | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

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