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Curator Bazin utters a proud Frenchman's protest against comparing Napoleon's vacuum-cleaner sweep of European art with the wholesale robbery by Hitler and Goring. Napoleon, Bazin insists, was motivated by the lofty ideal of creating a new and universal European culture, and was within the ethics of his time. But after Waterloo, Napoleon's conquerors saw Napoleon's operation uplift in another light, stripped the Louvre of 5,233 precious art objects, left little more than 100 canvases and 800 drawings...
...serfs with them to the East. Napoleon snapped: "Do you think I have come all this way just to conquer these huts?" The Russians were inspired-not by liberty-but by what was literally a holy horror of the French; they would not even eat from a plate a Frenchman had touched. When they were brought to battle, they presented "inert masses" to the French artillery until the gunners themselves stopped, aghast at their slaughter. It had become a war of icon and tricolor. Ségur records his disillusion: "It was no longer a war of kings we were...
...divorce. Relenting last week, unlucky Pierre confessed that it was all true, declared that he and Suzy had been advised by a Hollywood press-agent to keep their marriage secret because there is something more glamorous about a Hollywood star who is single. "I am a Frenchman," Pierre said superfluously, "and I have difficulty understanding how this should...
...Only Man. Like every other thoughtful Frenchman in Algeria. Soustelle is painfully aware that if rapid steps are not taken to fulfill the Moslems' newfound hopes for integration, the resulting bitterness is likely to be beyond appeasement. To Soustelle, the only man who can prevent this-the only man who can arbitrate between Metropolitan France and the Algiers insurgents-is Charles de Gaulle. On this conviction. Soustelle has at 46 staked his political future...
...decides that she has flown back to her husband in New York, lets himself be seduced in a bathroom by a sulphurous blonde in a purple cashmere pullover who has wandered into his place with a crowd of hipsters. Then he suffers the pangs of remorse that any real Frenchman would presumably feel at being unfaithful to another man's wife. He takes poison-just before the American finally shows...