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Viansson-Ponté estimates that only 1,500 Frenchmen qualify as real Gaullists, has selected 116 of these for inclusion in his directory. Even in apostasy, he says, the Gaullist "link is indestructible. Excluded, exiled, in rebellion, Jacques Soustelle remains a member of the circle." But ironically, such ranking spokesmen for present-day Gaullist policy as Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville and Information Minister Alain Peyrefitte are excluded for lacking the proper credentials...
...King Club who plays his twin turntables with all the grace and flamboyance of a 19th century concert pianist. When too many dancers take the floor in France, the compleat disquaire strikes them into their chairs by playing a French song-recurrent proof of the popular theory that Frenchmen hate their own music. To liven things up, disquaires turn to Ray Charles or a hully-gully by The Cookies...
...Hours" of Le Mans is the world's most famous auto race-and nobody is quite sure why. Perhaps it is Le Mans's history of death (more than 100 fatalities in 43 years), perhaps because it is so brutally long. Frenchmen call it La Ronde Infernale ("The Hell Circuit"). Pro drivers hate it: the 8.3-mile course is monotonous, and amateurs are allowed to compete, a fact that makes the coolest pro perspire with fright. The only man who really enjoys Le Mans is Italy's crusty old Enzo Ferrari, whose cars have won the race...
...foreign tourists, the Paris cop seems a model of quiet courtesy. He directs them to American Express and Thomas Cook with a debonair salute; he guides gladiatorial traffic with a calm nonchalance. Frenchmen look on le flic quite differently. Apart from their dislike of taking orders from anyone, they know that frequently in the hem of his natty blue cape is sewn enough buckshot to break a man's-and sometimes a woman's-nose. They have seen him wading into a crowd flailing a 6-ft. riot cane like a scythe...
...dared to protest that a cop was neglecting an accident victim while quizzing witnesses; Belmondo was knocked flat. During May, four prisoners detained for trifling offenses hanged themselves in their cells. There was no evidence to prove that the police were at fault, but no one could convince suspicious Frenchmen that the deaths were not caused by third-degree tactics. Paris has also gotten a little tired of the overzealous use of submachine guns issued during the past Algerian terrorist outbreaks. When a panther escaped from a circus, a flic mistook a shadow for the beast and in error plugged...