Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most bitter defeat in June 1940, when as the 73-year-old commander of Allied troops in France, he found the Nazi blitzkrieg so overwhelming that he recommended capitulation before the entire country was overrun; of complications following a broken hip; in Paris. Over the years most Frenchmen have forgiven his lack of fighting spirit, putting it down to age and a lifetime spent thinking in terms of trench warfare. But not Charles de Gaulle, who denied him a funeral at Les Invalides, traditional shrine for French military heroes...
...from his Citroën by Electrician Jean Le Bihan and beaten unmercifully. Le Bihan's wife joined in with the high heel of one of her shoes. When arrested, Le Bihan claimed that the judge's car had cut him off. In an effort to impress Frenchmen with the need to end such violence, Le Bihan was given ten months in jail. To underline its concern, the Ministry of Justice ordered that all motorists engaged in automotive scuffles be charged and tried within three days of the event. Finally, France-Soir weighed in on the side...
...American Church on summer Sundays, and about 3,000 U.S. Parisians attend services at least intermittently. Sargent's imaginative methods of evangelism have extended the church's "outreach" to roughly half of the 20,000 Americans in the city, and to a goodly number of Frenchmen as well...
Curious as to what sort of following charlatans have, the newspaper France-Soir sponsored a public-opinion poll that suggested that 58% of all Frenchmen could say under what sign of the zodiac they had been born, 53% regularly read their daily horoscopes in the press, 43% thought of astrologers as scientists, 38% intended to have their horoscopes drawn up by an astrologer, and 37% believed that character traits correspond to zodiacal signs. More to France's credit was the fact that the most avid believers turned out to be farmers, people over 65 and workers earning less than...
...Louis XIII was an age yearning for gentility. Interiors with paneled walls, beetle-browed fireplace mantels and massively beamed ceilings still lacked the airiness of the Sun King's era. But historians call the earlier Louis' reign the "High Epoch," a period when Frenchmen culled ideas from the cultures of other European countries and refined them with their own innate good taste. Navigation had proved the world rounder and more compact than even Columbus thought. Rembrandt was mastering the play of light and shade, or chiaroscuro, as the baluster lathework of Louis XIII furniture tried to imitate. Louis...