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...painful diagnosis of the chill of modern life, and in France that makes Léo Ferré a kind of poet laureate. He hates, among other things, the church, most governments, radio, television and the Academic Franchise, and he hates them with the droll expertise Frenchmen instinctively admire. In a country that nourishes the cult of the dinner-table anarchist, Ferre is almost a government in exile...
...Geneviève de Galard-Terraube, who was the only woman nurse on the battlefield. (Now 39, Geneviève is a retiring Paris housewife and mother of two children, married to a former French paratrooper.) They were poignant get-togethers, for Dienbienphu holds as deep emotional implications for Frenchmen today as Verdun or Waterloo did for earlier generations...
...came to America," explains Ed Lucia, a top U.S. fencing coach, "they came with an ax, not with a sword." Even today many Americans consider the sport effete-incorrectly, for swordsmanship throughout history has been equated with valor, stamina, agility. Fencing is still dominated by the swordsmen of Europe. Frenchmen have won individual foils in seven of the last 13 Olympic competitions. Italian Olympians have won the last six individual épée gold medals; even more remarkable, the Hungarians have won the team saber title in every Olympics since 1928, and failed to win only one individual gold...
...combination of French steel and Mba's flinty threats of "total punishment" once he was back in office finally struck a spark. In Libreville's La-lala quarter, a dissonant mob formed. Fired up on payday whisky, it marched on the capital's central market, screaming: "Frenchmen go home!" The rioters were finally dispersed in a crunching whirl of para rifle butts...
...Gabon's 6,000 Frenchmen that meant only one thing: the U.S. had been behind the abortive coup in hopes of discountenancing le grand Charles. This pied-noir illogic reached all the way to Paris' Quai d'Orsay, where foreign-office officials helped spread the rumor. Last week the anti-American feeling coalesced into violence. A Simca-load of colons cruised past the U.S. embassy in Libreville, peppered the building with shotgun fire. An hour later a bomb exploded in the garden...