Word: finie
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story on De Gaulle [May 31], you failed to adequately distinguish between the average Frenchman's acceptance of De Gaulle's policies (e.g., decolonization and national independence) and his corresponding rejection of De Gaulle's archaic governing methods (e.g., suppression of government criticism). Le Nez est fini because the French people desire an end to his particular liberté, égalité, sénilit...
Married. Charles Aznavour, 42, France's pint-sized disenchanter of love (C,est fini, You've Let Yourself Go); and UllaThorssell, 25, miniskirted Swedish model; he for the third time; at Las Vegas' Flamingo Hotel...
Virtually discarded is the Franco-German Treaty of Friendship signed with great hope by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in January 1963. "Ça sera fini [it will be ended]," sniffed De Gaulle contemptuously some months ago. This hardly bothers the West Germans, who have seen the treaty's value dwindle. The Germans realize that they are the only nation in the Western alliance with unresolved border problems, hence the only nation likely to use "nukes" in passion. What does bother them are the recent blunt remarks attributed to De Gaulle that he is now dead set against Bonn...
...France's Charles Aznavour it is the transiency of love that hurts. L'amour c'est comme un jour-it dawns, it dies. C'est fini, he cries, with desolate finality. You've Let Yourself Go is an unsparing plaint of conjugal disenchantment. Aznavour has none of the rakish charm of Maurice Chevalier, the ebullient high spirits of Charles Trenet, or the blatant sex appeal of Yves Montand. But he has two qualities that none of them possess with the same intensity-fire and sorrow. He was trained by Edith Piaf, and if one closes...
...Bizerte tragedy has affected Tunisians. "For years we have lived with France and now they do this," said a dock worker at Bizerte. "One never knows them well enough, does one?" Dozens of times during the week. Tunisians came up to me to say, "C'est fini!" From President Bourguiba down to the lowliest peasant, there is the realization that, come what may and even with the passage of time, Tunisians will never trust France again...