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Last week one of the 100,000 came home. He was an obscure Breton named Corentin Le Du. The Germans had arrested him two years ago, shipped him to notorious Maidanek. After releasing him, the Russians rushed him to Moscow. Then they sent him by special plane to Paris. Frenchmen, puzzled by this exclusive treatment, soon discovered the reason: Corentin Le Du is a French Communist. He brought a message...
...that count, the French are a very practical people. They watched with detached wonder when the U.S. Army laid a gasoline pipeline from the Normandy beachhead to Paris. Then an idea galvanized them into action: if gas can flow through a six-inch pipe, why not wine? Last week Frenchmen laid their own pipeline. Across the practically bridgeless Loire River it will bring wine from southern France to break a drought that has been desiccating Paris and northern France...
...French Intellectuals' Committee to Help Spain'' had reconstituted itself right after France's liberation. It had arranged this meeting, one of whose purposes was to organize all anti-Franco Frenchmen. For a unity meeting, it was uncommonly harmonious. Painter Picasso's guests agreed that, at the moment, Dictator Franco's position was precarious. Spanish Republicans had fought to liberate France. Now the time had come to return the favor-somehow. It remained only to decide...
General Charles de Gaulle stirred Frenchmen last week with the Napoleonic echo of two words - grande armée. He announced that the U.S. and Britain will supply weapons for a new army which will again make France a military power...
...Victor Hugo tells it), the strange Yankeeism had been brilliantly and broadly translated by General Pierre Jacques Etienne de Cambronne, commanding the last square of Napoleon's Old Guard. To a British demand for surrender the General shouted: "Merde!"-now proudly (but euphemistically) cited by fastidious Frenchmen as le mot de Cambronne-"Cambronne's [four-letter] word...