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...emotions is as firm as ever-because the book is so uncomfortably a reminder of that streak of injustice that lives in every man. Until the last page Boulle keeps alive the hope that the streak will subside and that conscience will triumph. As a realist-and a Frenchman-can he let anything like that happen...
Perhaps the only weak link in almost nine centuries of tradition was 1789 when the Puseys of Pusey Manor found themselves without a male heir. Ever resourceful, they import the a nephew from France who, like a good Frenchman, adopted the family name and produced a long line of male Puseys, some of whom still live in England, some in France, and some--however remotely related--in Cambridge...
Before the roundup was over, a phone jangled furiously in the Rabat bedroom of André Dubois, France's tall, elegant Ambassador to Morocco. When Dubois picked up the receiver a Frenchman serving with the Moroccan police excitedly reported that the newly independent Moroccan government was rounding up more than 50 members and alleged sympathizers of Présence Française, the organization of diehard colons who cannot reconcile themselves to Moroccan independence. A week earlier Moroccan police had discovered that Présence Française was circulating leaflets which urged Morocco's Berber minority...
From a mirrored salon in the ornate Hotel Matignon, official residence of France's Premiers, mild-mannered Socialist Guy Mollet last week cried out to his countrymen: "I ask every Frenchman to do his duty, to subscribe for Algeria and for France!" In these heroic words Premier Mollet imposed a sweet wartime sacrifice on France's citizens-the moral ob ligation to do a good piece of business at government expense...
Rene Char is a Frenchman with a great, hulking frame (6 ft. 3 in.) and a jaw like a duck press. By almost unanimous consent of his countrymen, he is the greatest French poet of his time. Existentialist Author Albert Camus spoke for the French intelligentsia when he saluted Char as "the great poet for whom we have been waiting." But English-reading people must take a French poetic reputation, like the credentials of ambassadors, largely on trust. In this bilingual sampler of his work, U.S. readers will be able to decide for themselves that measure for measure...