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Constructed over the next 300 years with vast wings and galleries, each in its own varying but harmonious style, the Louvre, completed in 1857, became one of the greatest of royal palaces. Even the vandalism of the Paris Commune, which in 1871 burned down the Tuileries, caused but few tears to be shed. With the Tuileries palace gone, the Louvre acquired one of the world's most breathtaking vistas, extending two miles up the Champs-Elyéees to Napoleon's Arch of Triumph...
Wandering Souls. The church stayed open through the Franco-Prussian war, the Paris Commune, World War I and the Depression; during World War II it was run by a French Protestant pastor for Dr. Williams, who left in 1940 with a flock of refugees...
...surest sign of a real political crisis in France, now as in the 1930s or the days of the 1871 Commune, is the emergence of the mobs. Into the Champs Elysées they came one afternoon last week, 5,000 youths, war veterans and rightist sympathizers. After a small group had placed a wreath on the grave of the Unknown Soldier under the Arc de Triomphe, they crowded toward the office of the weekly L'Express, which has been attacking French army excesses in Algeria (TIME, April 1). Some shouted, "Mendès to the gallows"; others cried...
...years Opus Dei inched ahead, an unofficial studying and worshiping commune of men who used old houses in Madrid as headquarters. They were in one of these on the city's outskirts when Spain's Civil War broke out, pinning them down in the line of fire between attacking Loyalists and Nationalists defending a barracks. After a two-day battle the Loyalists won; the Opus Deists slipped out of the house (Father Escrivá in worker's coveralls...
...prophet of the Republic," white-haired and bursting with emotion, returned to Paris with the more-than-vague hope that the Republic would reciprocate by making him its head. That was not to be. Through the siege of Paris by the Prussians and the bloody uprising of the Commune ("Both sides are mad"), Hugo wrote and loved on. One of his late conquests: Actress Sarah Bernhardt, then 28 to Hugo's 70. As age advanced, he grudged the speechmaking demanded of him by his grateful country. "To make a speech is more exhausting for me than making love three...