Word: frenched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Madame Iréne Richard. Then, in the tradition of every fictional golden-hearted chippy, she told all to Paulo. Her story: Lacaze had offered her $20,000 to complain to the police that Paulo was living off her earnings. Paulo went to a lawyer, who explained that under French law a legally adopted son cannot be disinherited unless he is shown to be of bad moral or criminal character -if indicted as a pimp, Paulo would lose his right to inherit the mammoth Walter fortune...
Stifled Scandals. French newspapers hinted at wider repercussions, at even more extensive political involvements. "The search for truth in this affair," cautioned L'Express, "will require justices with plenty of independence and magistrates with plenty of character and a high sense of duty." The lawyers on one side of the case included the attorney who once represented King Mohammed V of Morocco, and ex-Premier Edgar Faure, whose government had given Morocco its independence. Paris-Presse warned that "other characters" who have played "great roles in our postwar history" might come into the case, warned: "This affair must...
...name is Maria Gabriella Giuseppa Aldegonda Adelaide Margherita Ludovica Felicita Gennara di Savoia. The founder of her house was Humbert the White-handed, who ruled Savoy in the 11th century. Among her ancestors are saints, Holy Roman and Byzantine emperors, antipopes, French and Belgian princesses, Italian and Balkan nobility and kings of lands as widely separated as Spain and Cyprus and England. Italy, last week, was in a ferment over Princess Maria Gabriella. The report was that she might marry a king twice her age whose father had been an army private...
...Empire of the Mali (rhymes with Bali). Among its greatest rulers was a crippled boy named Sundiata Keita, who survived the murder of his eleven brothers and ascended the throne in 1230, to build a realm that was eventually to cover what is now Guinea, Senegal, the French Sudan and Ghana. Last week one of Sundiata's descendants, the Sudan's Modibo Keita, was in Dakar, capital of Senegal, as one of the architects of a modern revival of the old empire. Along with Senegal, Dahomey and the Voltaic Republic, the French Sudan completed the formation...
...push and pull that has taken place in Africa since France's territories voted on the De Gaulle constitution, the federation was an answer to the fear of West African leaders such as Senegal's Leopold Senghor that the newly autonomous states within the French Community might become "Balkanized" and one by one fall prey to the ambitious new rulers of Guinea and Ghana...