Word: frans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Your description of the division of France into two parts [June 3], one monopolizing the bonne vie and therefore voting for Valery Giscard d'Estaing, the other one struggling and consequently backing François Mitterrand, is far too simple to be right...
...longer the Iowa teen-ager who starred as St. Joan, Jean Seberg, 35, is a film director. Now, she and her third husband, aspiring Director Dennis Berry, 29, live in bourgeois comfort on Paris' Left Bank patronizing young film makers and actors. One of them, Jean-François Ferriol, "feels he is a reincarnation of Billy the Kid," said Jean, who thereupon sat down and wrote a two-reeler called Ballad for the Kid. The script calls for an encounter between Billy, played by Ferriol, and a Hollywood star from the '30s, played by Jean. "When...
...national leadership without peer in any other major Western country. Although Giscard is the first graduate to reach the presidency, other Enarques (as alumni are nicknamed) have played important roles in recent governments. Among them: former Foreign Minister Michel Jobert and ex-Finance Minister and Common Market Commission President François-Xavier Ortoli, both class of '48. Below the Cabinet level, the school's 2,600 graduates hold many of the key jobs in the French bureaucracy, and their grip on the system is growing...
...student quarter, meanwhile, small knots of young people gathered under the watchful gaze of riot police to shout sullenly, and absurdly, "A victory for fascism!" Such were the sharply distinct reactions to longtime Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's knife-edge victory over Socialist Françoise Mitterrand in France's presidential runoff last week...
...able to keep those currents flowing with him after he settles in at the Elysée. For a man who has been in public life for so long, he is, apart from his fiscal views, a surprisingly unknown quantity. Some political analysts, like L'Express Editor Jean-François Revel, feel that Giscard has proved himself a good Finance Minister and therefore will be a good President, a man who sees with clarity the problems and needs of his people. Others are not so sure. "Giscard never had a vision of the social problems of France...