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...always solemnly. Voltaire was flogged for his impertinence and thrown into the Bastille itself for his political gibes. The philosophes of the Enlightenment freely claimed (and were freely granted) credit for fomenting the Revolution. Victor Hugo was peremptorily exiled for 20 years for his support of the 1848 Revolution. François René de Chateaubriand, first proponent of Christian democracy, became Louis XVIII's Foreign Minister. Emile Zola rocked Europe with J'accuse, a defense of Dreyfus that was in fact an indictment of the established order...
...world's liveliest carnival of ideas, the mandarins dispute, propound and quarrel. Every week 380,000 Frenchmen buy the four intellectual weeklies that record their latest pronouncements. In regular newspapers, they often command more attention than politicians or priest Roman Catholic Novelist François Mauriac, in Le Figaro, urges French youth to a more dynamic Christian socialism. Existentialist Merleau-Ponty attacks Sartre for his latter-day allegiance to Stalinism in L'Express, is answered by Simone de Beauvoir in Les Temps Modernes...
Ethusiasm for impressionist paintings goes far beyond the auction rooms. French Critic François Mauriac puts it down to a nostalgic longing for times past. But the curator of Paris' Musée de l'Orangerie, where the recent U.S. loan show of French 19th century painting pulled 2,000 to 2,500 visitors daily, thinks the reason is even simpler: "People like to see pictures they understand...
...came the bombs. The Maroc-Presse was a special target; the managing editor was threatened, the executive editor driven from Morocco by bombings and machine-gun attempts on himself and his family. The counterterrorists operated with the obvious sympathy of diehard colon organizations such as the Présence Française. When one suspected killer eluded police questioning, it was discovered later that he had driven off in a red sports car belonging to a prominent physician and Présence Française leader and had holed up for several weeks at the physician's estate...
...Stop. In Bourguiba, France had no lackey, but what might be better: a Moslem moderate who went to school in France, married a French girl, and wants to work with the French. There was no sign that the French colons appreciated their good fortune. The diehard Présence Française called on all European settlers (250,000 in a nation of 3,300,000) "to unite to prevent the application of all measures interfering with their dignity, their persons or their wealth...