Word: frenchmen
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...Would Sgt. Russell have had all French shops shut their doors, to Frenchmen as well as Germans, during the occupation...
This week, four weeks after the liberation of Paris, the prevailing mood of middle and upper class Frenchmen was worry. People still smiled warmly, and in the houses of the haute bourgeoisie near the Bois there was always a profusion of flowers and of cold dry champagne to drive away the drowsiness that follows the rich meals. But after dinner the talk turned inevitably to politics which, in these houses, meant one thing: how to prevent Communism. The feeling was one of intense fear of something that might come...
...through the German occupation the U.S. Embassy in Paris was a symbol of hope to Frenchmen. The graceful, cream-tinted building off the Place de la Concorde shone brighter every day. Its gardens behind the high iron railings were always carefully manicured. Every window was clean and glistening. Inside, every inkwell was full, every desk tidy, no pastepot gooey...
Anti-Nazi poems, novels, essays and political reports, mostly written by Frenchmen under pseudonyms and collectively known as Les Editions de Minuit (Midnight Editions), they had been published under the noses of Vichy and Nazi authorities for more than two years. Now the authors' real names were revealed...
Last week all France went hunting-and the quarry was man. The patriots were having their long-looked-for day. In city streets and country woods, Frenchmen and their wives and children tracked down the Germans and collaborationists like animals. Sometimes the quarry was dispatched out of hand. More often, by an instinct for justice and law that was stronger than vengeance or terror, the quarry was jailed...