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CHRONICLE (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* An attempt to explain what makes a Frenchman tick, through dramatized excerpts from the works of Camus, Cocteau, Anouilh, De Maupassant and Balzac...
...named after Louis (roughly 1648-1715) was perhaps more profoundly embodied in the frail frame of another Frenchman, Blaise Pascal. Pascal began as a youthful exponent of reason and science-most notably in his studies of atmospheric pressure and the calculus of probabilities-only to recoil in middle life from everything science and reason had apparently achieved. In his last testament, the famous Thoughts on Religion, he emerged as an eloquent defender of religious belief. Science, he declared, was mere presumption, and man could grope his way towards the truth only by renouncing the intellect and "placing his faith...
...France could not have the glorious "policy consistent with her interests." Premier Georges Pompidou, an ex-banker, candidly said that all Frenchmen were jiggling tax returns a bit in their own favor, lamented that "while an American always wants to demonstrate that he earns more than his neighbor, the Frenchman always wants to show you he earns less...
...Midst of Life, the first full-length film by a 32-year-old Frenchman named Robert Enrico, is an adaptation of three stories by Ambrose Bierce, all treating of the U.S. Civil War. Though the picture was made in France with a French cast, the American atmosphere of the period is exquisitely interfused. The story is told in a sure and subtle flow of images, and Jean Boffety's photography makes a grave and lovely homage to Mathew Brady...
Butor's crime is not his adverse opinion of the U.S: It is that he has done what no honest Frenchman should do -watered his whine. Mobile outrageously pads about 20 pages of real reporting and social commentary into a 319-page, $6 book...