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...they have for generations, Frenchmen hedge their bets on the future by buying up and hoarding "napoleons"*-golden 20-franc pieces. Napoleons are thus the truest reflection of a small Frenchman's faith, or lack of faith, in his government's financial stability. Last week, after a climb of 30% in the past ten months, the price of the gold napoleon stood at 3,310 francs (about $9.45), the highest since the nervous last days of the war in Indo-China. In bullion terms, this made the napoleons worth $50 per oz., v. the U.S. price...
Sculptor Lipchitz himself was far from the scene of the fracas, working at home in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. When he heard the news, the fierce, brilliant old Frenchman grinned like a turtle. "How touched I am," he said. "How warm in my heart...
...qualified Moslems. At ceremonies celebrating the eleventh anniversary of V-E Day, hostile Algerian French crowds booed, hurled tomatoes and stones as Lacoste laid a wreath on the war memorial. "Lacoste, resign! Put the army in power!" they chanted. Lacoste hustled past the police cordon, stopped before one shouting Frenchman and demanded: "Have you ever fought a war?" The man said no. Snapped Lacoste: "Well, I fought in two. If you want to give lessons in patriotism, get up into the mountains." Lacoste turned to the others: "You're all nothing but a bunch of sidewalk jingoists...
...Gaulle. Not since he turned his back on what he called the "mudhole" of French politics has the name of De Gaulle been on so many lips. Wrote the Roman Catholic man of the left center, Novelist Francois Mauriac, in L'Express: "He appears to me the only Frenchman in whom reposes enough pure glory and who is gifted with enough prestige to revive in North Africa around France a federation of free peoples...
Stewart, as a puppy-friendly tourist, is soon pals with a jolly Frenchman (Daniel Gelin) and a pair of tweedy Britons (Bernard Mills and Brenda de Banzie). Doris is more suspicious: she thinks the Frenchman asks too many questions and that the Britons are just a little shifty-eyed. And what about the mysterious stranger with the death's-head face? Did he really knock at their hotel-room door by mistake? Even Jimmy realizes that something is up when Gelin, disguised as an Arab, comes staggering into the marketplace with a knife stuck in his back, and gasps...