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More painful to Frenchmen almost than the loss of their freedom was the abolition of a time-honored prerogative to landowners of distilling their own hard liquor without paying excise to the Government. By decree the Petain Government achieved what other Governments had un successfully attempted since 1789. It outlawed home distilling, thereby in theory checking the scourge of alcoholism, reducing the contraband liquor trade and bringing a tidy excise sum into the national treasury...
...sooner had Moltke's German Army withdrawn from Paris in 1871 than its citizens began fighting among themselves. Paris, besieged four months by Germany. held out two more months against France. Many Frenchmen died before order was restored under the Third Republic...
Church and State. Whether the new France rising from the ruins of the old constituted a Fascist dictatorship or something else agitated the outside world more than it bothered Frenchmen. Pierre Laval, strolling in the park at Vichy told newsmen that the Pétain Government's policies will be "audacious but generous." They sounded neither generous nor audacious...
General de Gaulle and other "free Frenchmen" in London observed Bastille Day by laying a wreath at the foot of the Cenotaph in Whitehall. In France, July 14 was a day of mourning, as July 4 might be to the U. S. if it surrendered its freedom to a conqueror...
...France. After World War I's Armistice, with a gracious Gallic gesture, France established in the famed old Palace of Fontainebleau near Paris the only school ever created by one nation for the exclusive benefit of another. There U. S. artists and musicians have studied under first-rate Frenchmen each summer since; in off hours could relax in the Forest of Fontainebleau's shady green aisles, feed ring-snouted carp in the pond by the palace, down drinks and French pastry at sidewalk cafes and poke mild fun at Rosa Bonheur's bull on its pedestal...