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...backdrop. There are vignettes of barbed wire and mud from the trenches, glimpses of the headlines and early newsreels of the period, episodes of the air war with the Parisian night crisscrossed by searchlights and rocked by the thud of primitive bombs. Author Troyat, Russian-born but an adoptive Frenchman since his youth, writes out of a passionate love of France. His Pierre and Amelie in their simplicity and capacity for goodness seem closer to the gentle peasant folk of Tolstoy than the rapacious villagers of Balzac. Yet even Amelie loses innocence as the book progresses: she learns...
...Paris one day last week, at a luncheon meeting designed to promote Franco-American friendship, suave, well-tailored U.S. Ambassador Amory Houghton was greeted by a glaring Frenchman with the wild outcry: "We hate America...
Raul ("Little Mouse") Macias was obviously among friends. Every Mexican who could make it was in Los Angeles' Wrigley Field last week screaming for Macias to murder that little Frenchman in the other corner. But French Bantamweight Alphonse Halimi couldn't understand a word-and couldn't care less. A grown-up guttersnipe from the back alleys of Algeria's Constantine, Alphonse learned long ago that the guy with the busted bottle, the quick pocketknife or the padded fists, is the only enemy...
...appease traditionalists, the French would retain Paris, operating it like the Free City of Danzig. A further incentive might be to append the name "French" to the new political regions, as "German-French Coal-Mining District" or "Italian-French Riveria," and require that at least one Frenchman participate on the executive board of the new governments...
...overpopulated by 80,000 natives, where pimps and petty thieves dart about labyrinthian alleyways, secret passages and connecting rooftops. It is also a prime hideout for terrorists of the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN). From its recesses they fan out to plant bombs, stab and shoot, wreaking vengeance on Frenchman and moderate Arab alike. So far this year their bombs have killed 47 civilians, wounded 263 others; as a result, anyone now entering a bus. store or cinema in Algiers is automatically searched for arms or bombs...