Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...specify a bottle of Préfontaines to a sommelier will make his eyeballs roll. Préfontaines is very much a vin ordinaire, the sturdy stuff that washes down the bread and cheese and accounts for 90% of the 1.5 billion gal. of wine drunk by Frenchmen every year. It will never make a select wine list, but it has made another important listing: the shares of the Préfontaines company, D.M.S., have gone on the Paris Bourse for the first time. This is an indication of the success of Préfontaines in France...
CHANSONS GAILLARDES (Vogue). Frenchmen have been writing naughty lyrics since the dawn of civilization, and Colette Reynard here sings some of the most memorable ones, beginning with the 17th century...
...Dday: "The fact is that De Gaulle the man does not amount to a great deal-now. The De Gaulle who counts is De Gaulle the symbol-the half-seen, half-known figure who to millions of Frenchmen personifies the French will to survive ... to restore France to greatness...
...Year, for weathering the Algerian crisis and setting in motion long-overdue internal reforms: "Above all, he has given Frenchmen back their pride, swept away the miasma of self-contempt that has hung over France since its ignominious capitulation to Hitler...
Confronted with a menu offering him the choice of "Le Wimpy," "Le Super Wimpy," "Le Wimpy King Size" or "Le Super Wimpy King Size"-all hamburgers-a Frenchman might be expected to cry out for a double cognac and forget about lunch. In fact, more and more Frenchmen are gobbling a snack and forgoing a leisurely feast at lunchtime. The man leading the assault on gastronomical tradition is Jacques Borel, 39, proprietor of 107 snack bars and cafeterias in Paris...