Word: frenchmen
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Cancer, said the doctors in 1821. But Frenchmen have always suspected that it was his British captors on St. Helena who slew Napoleon Bonaparte at the age of 51. Now a British scientist, Hamilton Smith, thinks he has proved it: he subjected samples of Napoleon's hair to nuclear bombardment in Britain's Harwell reactors and found arsenic! Only, being an Englishman, he says that his associates believe it was Napoleon's French chamberlain, General Charles-Tristan de Montholon, who poisoned the Emperor. French historians hooted down the theory as so much old lace. The hairs were...
Perpetual Glory. As the trial dawned in Toulouse last week, millions of Frenchmen were still reeling from what one proud Corsican politician called the "idiocy" of Lyndon Johnson's recent reference to Napoleon as "a son of Italy." Hundreds of irreverent students dressed up in Napoleonic hats and racing shorts pedaled endlessly around the courthouse. Inside, three costumed judges bravely subdued their grins, prepared to try the defamation of Napoleon under the Code Napoleon...
...billion business that employs 1,000,000 Frenchmen was hurt by Europe's highest prices, frequent rudeness and poor service. "We have the reputation," commented Paris Match, "of being the least welcoming people on the Continent." The number of foreign tourists has increased-from 5,000,000 in 1958 to an estimated 6,500,000 this year-but they have cut their average stay from six days to only three, and spending has dropped 20% along the Riviera. To save on hotel and restaurant bills many visitors took the do-it-yourself approach to tourism, camping out in their...
...Despite the distractions, smash musical after smash musical kept materializing on the quires of composition paper he kept in his luggage. By 1937, he had done 15 of them, including Paris, Fifty Million Frenchmen, Red, Hot and Blue, and Anything Goes, the show which contained a lyric whose rhymes and similes transfigured the art and cast the moon-June school into lasting shade...
...terms, De Gaulle spoke of all that France could do for Venezuela-"by opening the doors of her universities, by sending her technicians, by encouraging investments in a country like this." Then he came to the hard part, a scarcely veiled reference to U.S. "hegemony" in Latin America. "We Frenchmen," he told a group of businessmen and farm leaders, "believe that from the points of view of economy, politics, influence and power, Latin America is an essential factor in a world which must regain an equilibrium. You are masters in your own house, and we wish that you remain...