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...work outside his native land. After studying anatomy in a Paris hospital, he set out for Rome, where he filled notebook after notebook with sketches of ancient ruins and nearly starved to death. Once, when the Vatican was at odds with Cardinal Richelieu, papal troops tried to beat the Frenchman up. He caught syphilis, and partly to avoid further temptation, married the daughter of the pastry cook who nursed him back to health. The disease left its mark-trembling hands and eventual paralysis-but at 45 Poussin was at last being hailed as France's Raphael...
...next two days the trial proceeded in secret; newsmen were denied admission by gendarmes with submachine guns. Then came the verdicts: ten years for Frenchman Alleg, 20 years for the secretary-general of the outlawed Algerian Communist Party and one other Moslem, five to 15 years for five others, acquittals for the last two. Then police picked up the chief defense counsel, handed him an expulsion order and packed him onto a Paris-bound plane...
...Memoirs of Charles de Gaulle: Vol. Ill, Salvation 1944-46. This final volume shows clearly the incorruptible honesty, and the accurate but sometimes irritating sense of destiny, of the man who may well prove to be the greatest Frenchman of his century...
...make bones look even more appealing than flesh, finally conceded that, after almost five years with Paris Reporter Pierre de la Salle (one child), it was all over. Some months ago, Suzy had given an interesting description of her marriage: "An American girl is against everything a Frenchman stands for. I've been told I can't cook, I can't sew, and I'm not fit to be a wife. If I speak French to him, he speaks English. If I speak English, he says I make no effort to speak French...
...bold, sometimes eloquent prose that serves as an admirable carriage for all the De Gaulle qualities: his soldier's selflessness, his sometimes irritating sense of destiny, above all his incorruptible honesty. In another man it would seem intolerable if he wrote of himself in the third person: "Every Frenchman . . . had the troubling suspicion that with the General vanished something primordial, permanent and necessary which he incarnated in history." From De Gaulle such words have the ring of simple fact...