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...Pierre Laval was not only "the shrewdest, most forceful personality in Vichy," but an intensely patriotic Frenchman whose tragic flaw was not :hat he sympathized with Hitler but that ie had "astonishing ignorance about the Germans and supreme confidence in his ability to outsmart them...
GEORGES ROUAULT-Perls, 1016 Madison Ave. at 78th. The prolific Frenchman painted thousands, burned hundreds; 20 oils, spanning 50 years, give a spare but instructive glimpse of his trademarks. Fauvist paintings of 1906-07 show passion for pure color; later, thick black lines begin to silhouette jeweled blues and clarets; the "dawn" paintings of the 1950s burst with chrome yellows and greens. Through March...
...race, it does not forbid discrimination on grounds of sex. Celler answered with the old saw about the French tourist in New York, who when asked what he thought of the Empire State Building, replied that it reminded him of sex. "Why?" asked his guide. "Everything does," said the Frenchman...
...patent medicines - notably, Les Petites Pilules Carters Pour Le Foie - as well as treating it to massage, hot baths, compresses, radioactive water, herbs, fasts, purges, exercises, and injections, naturally, of liver. Says an Anglo-Saxon doctor who has practiced for many years in Paris: "I have never examined a Frenchman who did not believe that he had liver trouble." Undoubtedly, the Frenchman's liver takes a worse beating than any other variety on earth, except that of the geese they force-feed for foie gras. The French foie not only absorbs more and richer food than most other livers...
...universal is the cult of liver worship, say many doctors, that patients refuse to believe that anything else could possibly be wrong with them. Says Dr. André Varay, one of France's most eminent liver specialists: "French liver trouble is almost a chauvinistic attribute. The Frenchman looks indulgently at the minor miseries his epicureanism and great cooking cause him, the way a valiant warrior looks on his battle scars...