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...attempt by Lacoste to match force with reforms to benefit the Arabs angered Algeria's 1,000.000 Frenchmen. Students at the University of Algiers struck against Lacoste's announced plan to give two-thirds of all administrative posts to qualified Moslems. At ceremonies celebrating the eleventh anniversary of V-E Day, hostile Algerian French crowds booed, hurled tomatoes and stones as Lacoste laid a wreath on the war memorial. "Lacoste, resign! Put the army in power!" they chanted. Lacoste hustled past the police cordon, stopped before one shouting Frenchman and demanded: "Have you ever fought...
Reverse the Regime. Last week, watching the spreading decay in Algeria, increasing numbers of Frenchmen were reaching an unhappy conclusion: a policy of negatives will not save Algeria, and the Fourth Republic (which has had 22 Premiers in eleven years) seems incapable of providing anything else. Frenchmen of all shades of the political spectrum talked of the need for a fundamental revision of the regime itself...
Victor Hugo was born (1802) to lead, and France still groans under his leadership. Asked who is France's greatest poet, Andre Gide made a famed reply: "Victor Hugo, alas!" His answer sums up precisely the pain and resentment still felt by many Frenchmen when they bow the knee to the man who wrote an end to the old traditions. In this excellent biography, Andre Maurois explains why. Subtlety, precision, restraint are French gods, but enthroned above them all sits the immortal Hugo, passionate antithesis of subtlety, precision and restraint...
States-General since 1789.*Peeling off coat, vest and tie, Poujade orated: "When delegates from every corner of France, backed by half a million Frenchmen, gather at the Porte de Versailles, Republican legality will no longer be at the Palais Bourbon but there where we are." At this heady vision of a new march on Paris, every provincial shopkeeper and artisan delegate cheered lustily...
Around the Corner, Pam-Pam. But for the Café de la Paix. the end of World War II nearly proved disastrous. As prices skyrocketed, the carriage trade moved on to less expensive places; Frenchmen still crowded the chestnut-shaded sidewalk tables, but they dawdled longer over aperitifs or coffee, and U.S. tourists were warned off by the high prices noted in guidebooks. The Café de la Paix might have toppled like a French Cabinet had it not been for energetic Paul Chapotin, 41, son-in-law of the restaurant's second-generation owner, 74-year-old Andr...