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...difficulty is that Trudeau and Lévesque differ totally on the means to prevent the assimilation of the French???a problem that has dogged Canada ever since British General James Wolfe ended French rule in Quebec with his victory over the Marquis de Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham in 1759. For Trudeau, the safeguarding of the Gallic heritage of Quebec, as well as that of some 1 million other French-speaking Canadians in other provinces,* can and should be done within a tolerant, officially bilingual Canada. For Lévesque, the solution is a homogeneous, independent state where Quebecois...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Secession v. Survival | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

...Elaborately friendly, Premier Edouard Herriot of France (who speaks German) and Chancellor Franz von Papen of Germany (who speaks French???see p. 16) strolled about arm in arm, taking each other's measure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Chancellor Proposes | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

...mother is dead?she committed suicide?so Chevalier takes him to the junkshop. Later the junkman becomes the star of one of those French musical comedies where the girls roll their eyes like Irene Bordoni. Some of the songs are in English, but the better ones are French???"Les Ananas" and "Valentine." Best shot: young David Durand beginning to cheer up when Chevalier puts on a three-cornered cap and plays the drum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures May 13, 1929 | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

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