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...franc Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. Men in morning coats and grey cravats walked amid the drift of chestnut leaves with elegant women in Balenciaga and Dior gowns and outsize souffle hats. A few miles across town in the cavernous glass-roofed Grand Palais, thousands of other Frenchmen thronged the annual Salon de l'Auto to stare with passionate absorption at the chromium flash and gadgets of the 1959 model cars. These people, the acquisitive bourgeois society described so memorably by Balzac, were the true victors of the referendum. France had voted conservative-matching the trend...
...Gaulle. Yet it also seemed clear that the voters of France and of the overseas territories-now known as the Community, like Britain's Commonwealth-had gone to the polls not so much to vote in a new constitution as to vote out an old. What united Frenchmen as dissimilar as Hubert Beuve-Méry, neutralist publisher of Le Monde, and the royalist pretender, the Comte de Paris, Prince Napoleon and Brigitte Bardot, cloistered Carmelite nuns and a nameless million voters who had previously backed the Communists, was an intense desire to be rid of the ungoverned...
...attentively to De Gaulle's oracular and stylishly ambiguous speeches, they got little hint of what the future would be like. Not even his aides, dedicated as they are to his general philosophy, are allowed to know at any moment the pattern of his intentions. All that most Frenchmen have for certain this week is a memory of De Gaulle moving among masses of people with the awkward lope of a giraffe, patting a head here, shaking a hand there, peering about him with nearsighted benevolence. But they knew also that he was a man of integrity and vision...
...outpouring of Moslem voters stunned the most optimistic Frenchmen. Even in the mountains of Kabylia, once an F.L.N. stronghold, Moslem women swathed in traditional robes waited patiently to cast the first vote of their lives. At Mostaganem, one pregnant Moslem woman defied doctor's orders to take her place in line and produced her baby right in the polling station. In impressive numbers, they voted for De Gaulle...
...Algeria; and as long as the Algerian Liberation Front insists that negotiations must lead to France's acceptance of independence, to reject the latter means to reject the former. De Gaulle's predecessors have had the same attitude. It is a realistic one given the state of mind of Frenchmen in Algeria (both civilian and military) as well as of Frenchmen in France (where very few of the Liberals have come out for independence; on the whole they ask for negotiations, thus forgetting a bit too easily what the Liberation Front's terms...