Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vichy is the place where Frenchmen take the waters by day, and by night listen to speeches designed to soothe their pride as exponents of the glory of France and its civilizing mission. Many are colonists from North Africa, and last week they packed the Hall of Spectacles, confident of hearing a soothing speech from Marshal Alphonse Juin...
...Ahead for France?", he said that France's loss of Algeria would mean great disadvantages for the Moslems there, who have achieved civil liberties during the French regime. In answer to a question from the floor, d'Arvisenet denied that the French want to make the Algerians into Frenchmen...
...Chum. There were more quarrels with Lilli, and trial separations. "Let's face it," Lilli says, "Englishmen don't like women, at least not in the way that Italians or Frenchmen like women. Englishmen don't ever really look at a woman. The greatest compliment Rex can pay me is to say that being with me is as good as being with a pal. He's a man's man, an Englishman...
...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...
...cantons would be a single legislative assembly of elected representatives from each canton. The Premier of the assembly would automatically become Vice Premier of the French government, assuring Algeria of a tie with France at the top. This future Algeria would be part of a new "French Federation," and Frenchmen in Algeria would hold dual nationality in both France and Algeria. The new Algerian state would have internal autonomy, but France would continue in control of its army and foreign relations and keep a veto on its finances...