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...iron composure seemed momentarily to waver. But in four perilous days, the 70-year-old De Gaulle re-established his imposing authority. France was left badly shaken, but with a sense that long-lived rancors had been purged. Stubborn and proud, De Gaulle once again proved himself the greatest Frenchman of modern times...
...Preface for the Italian Edition, where the third and fourth letters were published for the first time, Camus explains: "I am contrasting two attitudes, not two nations, even if, at a certain moment in history, these two nations personified two enemy attitudes." And this is true, for the Resistance Frenchman, addressing a former comrade, is inclined to equate moral rectitude with winning wars, or at least to make the latter seem a result of the former. We know this is not always the case; in later years the writer himself was more detached. But inadequate as these pages might...
...leader, Abbe Arnaud Amalric, head of the Cistercian monastic order, how to distinguish between the heretics and the faithful. "Kill them all," was the abbot's alleged reply. "God will recognize his own!" From then on, the crusade became a war without mercy, in which almost any southern Frenchman was assumed to be a heretic. Historians estimate the total number of casualties...
...weakened. Far more challenging would be Kennedy's Paris confrontation next month with France's Charles de Gaulle, who has called for drastic changes in NATO. Kennedy may promise De Gaulle a stronger voice in shaping the alliance's policy, perhaps offer to let a Frenchman succeed U.S. General Lauris Norstad as NATO's European commander...
Resistance, Rebellion, and Death, by Albert Camus. How much the world lost in the untimely death of this great Frenchman is all too apparent in these lucid and luminous essays...