Word: franc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...allay police unrest the Prefecture of Police asked the Government to approve a twelve-franc (10^) bonus for every policeman who reports a street accident...
...hundreds of years, Paris' chiffoniers (rag pickers) had shuffled about quietly in the half-light before dawn, pawing through potato peels and rotten meat in their quest for a handful of old rags or an empty tin can. (Their .reward: for a kilo of rags, 4 francs; for a kilo of iron, half a franc...
...comparable to those in the U.S. Typical rates: $5 a day double at London's medium-priced Cumberland, $14 a day double at Paris' famed George V. Actually, the cost of-traveling-and tours-depends on what happens to foreign currencies. Both the French franc and the Italian lira are skidding. If the pegged price is not changed to match the fall in real value (France refused to do so during the war), tourists will find their U.S. dollars bringing less and less unless they patronize the black market. Reason: prices will go up to counteract the fall...
...automobile tycoons and politicians of the Third Republic elbowed out dukes and princes. Business came before pleasure even at Maxim's. Over Maître d'Hôtel Albert's homard à l'américaine, Cabinet careers were made and broken, and million-franc deals consummated. Maxim's ladies, the poules de luxe, often sat in lonely splendor until at long last a U.S. sugar king or Bolivian tin baron whispered in Gérard...
Reverend Anarchist. The 100,000 franc ($830) Pléiade Prize went to a 33-year-old Catholic priest, Jean Natal Grosjean for his metaphysical poem Terre du Temps. Father Grosjean sings: "Anarchy is order between persons. All the rest is merely commerce." He scorns the church's philosophic mainstays, Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas, and dislikes Catholic poets Charles Péguy and Paul Claudel. Instead, anarchist philosopher Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and pagan poet Arthur Rimbaud are Father Grosjean's favorites. He says: "I have no political ideas, but if political practice reflected the purity of theory...