Word: franc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Behind that door," said the Frenchman, "the members of the Goncourt Academy are selecting the best one of the 300 novels published in France this year for Edmond de Goncourt 's 5,000-franc prize...
...Jean Letourneau and Defense Minister Jules Moch. Letourneau is responsible for Indo-China, but he has lacked power to prosecute the war. Privately he is reported to have complained: "Whenever I need a uniform button I have to apply to Jules Moch for it. Whenever I need an additional franc I have to beg [Finance Minister] Maurice Petsche...
...Belgium last week, pro-government La Libre Belgique said that it did not advocate censorship. But it thought that the time had come to warn foreign correspondents that they had been "abusing Belgian hospitality" by their "distorted" coverage of the recent political campaign. In Britain and France, indirect efforts have been made to place official restraints on the press, but newspapers have resisted them. A year after the proposal by Britain's Royal Commission on the Press that a body of press and public members be set up to guard against journalistic "excesses" (TIME, July 11), Britain...
Complete Cure? The renewed faith in Western European currencies was reflected in their rising value in terms of U.S. dollars. In France, for example, the black-market franc was selling close to the official rate (in dollars). Last week there was talk in Paris of full stabilization of the franc, possibly on a fixed exchange rate with the dollar, and removal of exchange controls...
...dallied in the bars and casinos, chain-smoked cheap Gauloise cigarettes, treated hangers-on to champagne and caviar, played roulette for 10,000-franc chips ("His Majesty's losses," remarked a croupier, "befitted his rank"), sometimes conducted jazz bands, sent his secretary to open negotiations with the many women who caught his eye. ("My grandfather had 125 wives and 300 children," Bao Dai once remarked to a journalist. "I have a few mistresses. What then?") He played golf capably and bridge like a master. A crack shot with rifle or revolver, he often arranged target competitions with...