Word: frenchman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THOUGH he will be remembered as the senior architect of Franco-German amity, Charles de Gaulle has believed throughout most of his life that Frenchman and German could never bridge their temperamental differences-let alone lay foundations for Europe's closest economic, political and military entente. In 1934, while a captain attached to the Defense Ministry, De Gaulle wrote a slim volum, The Army of the Future, which mirrored the conviction of most Frenchmen that the traditional hostility between France and Germany was "in the nature of things." The border between the two countries, wrote De Gaulle...
...This Frenchman, who has so much order in his mind and so little in his acts, this logician who doubts everything, this lackadaisical hard worker, this enthusiast for tail coats and public gardens who goes about in sloppy clothes and strews the grass with litter, in short, this fickle, uncertain, contradictory nation-how could the Teuton sympathize with it, understand it, or trust...
...irony of De Gaulle's evolution is that it took yet another war with Germany to persuade him that German and Frenchman could and should be partners. In his memoirs. he describes the thoughts that filled his mind in 1945 while inspecting French occupation forces in Germany...
...Italian, Pole, and Frenchman discussed European culture at the International Seminar last Wednesday evening. The men comprising the panel were: Lucio Pozzi, a professional Italian artist; Lucjan Kydrynski, Editor for Cultural Affairs of the Polish "Przekroj Weekly;" and Louis Paul Marcorelles, Assistant Editor of "Cahiersedu Cinema...
Under normal circumstances, only necessity would draw any Frenchman to Maubeuge (pop. 30,000), a cheerless, Hoboken-like manufacturing center up near the Belgian border, where the moon-or, for that matter, the sun-shines rarely on the River Sambre. But all summer long the roads to Maubeuge have been jammed with moonstruck vacationers, honeymooners and touring rubbernecks, all lured there by what promises to become Europe's next popular hit-a tango called Un Clair de Lune à Maubeuge (Moonlight at Maubeuge...