Word: frans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Living by Larceny. The dead man was François Vintenon, a habitué of Paris' Latin Quarter. The sensitive, introverted son of a well-to-do merchant, François had joined a group of Left Bank surrealists. He was tall and thin; his friends said he had the face of a "perverse angel." He wrote poems which nobody understood. He lived by stealing. After the German invasion, François' father, who had turned collaborationist in order to save his business, persuaded his son to write for a Nazi publishing enterprise at 10,000 francs...
Googoo, Gobgoo, Googoo. During the German occupation, some of the surrealists escaped labor battalions by pretending insanity. One howled like a wolf, another barked like a dog, a third capered about like a ballet dancer, gurgling "googoo, googoo, googoo!" But François joined the Resistance, carried messages and dropped underground pamphlets...
...eight months the police, alerted by druggists, tried to track him through the blizzard of fake prescriptions. François eluded them. One day, unable to get eubine, he dosed himself massively with a soporific, and dozed on a public bench. François landed in a public hospital. There his story came...
...Scandal in Paris (Arnold Pressburger-United Artists), based in a rather freewheeling way on actual fact, tells how Eugene François Vidocq (George Sanders), a criminal almost too clever for his own good, became prefect of the Paris police and turned his youthful research to gainful account as the first great detective (circa...
...G.I.s to escort the Boches. Last week, French indignation reached a new high near Reims, when several hundred demonstrators protested against Nazi P.W. insolence and arrogance. Down came a U.S Army roadside sign which gave convoy instructions in English and German; up went a laconic, patriotic substitute: "Reims, territoire fran...