Word: frans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beneath St. Martin's in the Fields. He was still talking when the program moved on to the kitchen of the Savoy Hotel, where Bob Bowman described a menu that included eight hors d'oeuvres, eight different kinds of meat and game. With him was famed Chef François Latry, who remarked: "I'm very happy to say hello to my friends . . . and to tell them we are well and food is plentiful. The war has not affected my cooking...
...flats a metropolis spawned, a city not of one nation but of the world, where British taipans played polo in the long afternoons, where tough, good-humored American businessmen talked baseball, poker and politics, where short French soldiers laughed with not quite proper young ladies at the Cercle Sportif Français, where Russian princes turned barbers and German barbers turned princes. It became a city of American complexion-of skyscrapers, streetcars, movie houses, as foreign to China as a city of bamboo huts and Buddhist temples would be on the marshes of the Chesapeake...
Daybreak (French) is built on a dramatic foundation often tried and usually untrue: the device of discovering a character in a narrow corner, where he sits obligingly remembering his story for the camera. The story that passes before the blank eyes of François (Jean Gabin) in his garret room, as the police stand waiting for him on the street beneath, is strange and more worth remembering than most...
...François is a happy workman on a sanding machine when he meets Françoise (Jacqueline Laurent) on their saint's day. Pursuing elusive young Françoise he meets worldly-wise Clara (Arletty). Over both women has been cast the dark and fascinating spell of Valentin (Jules Berry), an aging dog trainer who loves to tell lies and make simple people unhappy. When François climbs to his garret for the last time, Valentin has accomplished his masterpiece...
Other Ministries: Finance, Senator Yves Boutillier, who had been adviser to the aging Joseph Caillaux; Justice, Raphael Alibert; Youth & Family, Jean Ybarnégaray, a Basque Rightist Deputy, who named his fellow Basque, Tennist Jean Borotra, director of amateur sports; Agriculture, Agriculturist Pierre Caziot; Communications, Corsican Deputy François Piétri; Colonies, Martinique-born Senator Henri Lémery; Public Instruction, Senator Emile Mireaux, Industrial Production & Labor, onetime Popular Frontist Réné Belin. Though none of these men was distinguished for love of The Republic, they had a case to make...