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Prophet Without Honor. To many of his critics, France's towering, turbulent leader seems, as H. G. Wells once said, to be "an utterly sincere megalomaniac." Catholic Novelist François Mauriac wrote with greater insight: "He appears as though delegated by historic France to living France, in order that it should remember what a great nation it has been." In fact, De Gaulle has had a lifelong conviction that his mission is to lead France to new greatness. Hauteur and intransigence have always been weapons in that fight. For much of his life, he has been either...
...Paris, it took but a single ballot to elect Novelist-Journalist Joseph Kessel, 64, to the rarefied ranks of the Académic Française A byliner for Paris' France-Soir and author of the international bestseller The Lion, grey-maned Kessel is the first reporter ever to win a seat in the Academic. His election drew indignant grumbles from a fellow academician. Legion of Honor Commander Henry Bordeaux, who wrote the Academic protesting the entry of "this Kessel, who has lived such a dissolute life...
...Help me!" she begs the American. He smiles sadly. "You can't fight the Organization." But she has to try. She visits the young man's mistress (Françoise Prévost), visits the mistress of a man who may have been murdered by the Organization, visits a sinister intellectual who murmurs something prophetic about "une fatalité biologique." No clues from any of them. No real reason to believe that the young man is in danger. But suddenly one morning he is dead...
...trainer, Allen Jerkens, said he was worried: "That French colt-he's a brute." Racing exclusively in Europe, where stakes horses get fewer chances to run and purses are generally smaller than in the U.S., the muscular bay had already earned $283,000 for French Hotelman François Dupre, who owns Paris' Plaza-Athenee, Montreal's Ritz-Carlton, a breeding farm in Normandy and a string of 60 race horses. Dupre's jockey for the International: Yves Saint-Martin, France's top rider, a vise-handed craftsman who, at 21, already ranks with...
Tchin-Tchin has been adapted by Sidney Michaels from a French play by François Billetdoux. A wildly incompatible man and woman, betrayed by their respective spouses, meet to cut their emotional losses, and manage to lose everything else they have. At its core, the play is a Christian existential fable; on its surface it is a chiaroscuro of magical moods. Whenever the play is too fragile to carry them, its two stars, Margaret Leighton and Anthony Quinn, impressively carry the play...