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...Frenchmen. Proclaimed Robert Ballanger, leader of the Communist faction in the Assembly: "This bill menaces the family property and résidences secondaires of many small landowners-the little people...
Better Service. Now France's phone phobia is rapidly disappearing. After Giscard's election in 1974, one of his first acts was to have a modern telephone console installed next to his desk, and he uses it often. Other Frenchmen are beginning to want more phones too. New orders rose to 1.3 million last year, up from 291,000 in 1968, and a consumer group has been formed to lobby for better service...
Real Reforms. These possibilities will remain if more and more Frenchmen become persuaded that only the left can accomplish a program of real reforms. Giscard's ability to prove them wrong is in doubt: politically, he has lately begun to pedal back to the right. Recently he awarded his Premier the title of "coordinator and animator" of the presidential majority parties in the Assembly. Because "Bulldozer" Chirac, 43, is a committed Gaullist, his new job was a signal that Giscard now sees more need to regain the conservative voters he has scared off than to continue...
...rard's favorite dishes, l'aiguillette de caneton au poivre frais (breast of duckling in pepper sauce), packed a belt-whopping 700 calories per serving in his original version; the minceur variety contains 280. Guérard can prepare a celestial blanquette de veau, which to most Frenchmen is something only their mothers can do properly; but Guérard's blanquette contains 280 calories per serving, v. Mother's 1,000. A typical 500-calorie menu at Eugenie-les-Bains last season included: first day-mousseline of crayfish with watercress sauce, leg of milk...
...devil's advocate, the German points out that this section violates traditional French legal thought based on Montesquieu's idea of separation of powers. The Nazi, in other words, argues the French side and the Frenchman sounds like a Nazi. This sad but true fact of history--that many Frenchmen sold their countrymen into the arms of the Nazis for the sake of their careers under what they believed would be a Nazi future in Europe--informs the conflict between collaborators and loyalists that runs throughout the film. When the fascist Minister of the Interior argues the importance of order...