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Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Bourbon & Bonnet | 2/13/1933 | See Source »

When a Frenchman's well-worn leather purse is threatened his thoughts turn forcibly to Justice, he begins to talk louder & louder, may end by erupting with other Frenchmen into unseemly acts. Last week 10,000 solid citizens from various parts of France, members of the National Federation of Taxpayers, met in Paris, clamored for Justice until suddenly, shouting "On to the Chamber!", they started a rush for the Chamber of Deputies, grappled with Paris police, had to be beaten back by ornate cavalry of the Garde Républicaine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Guillotine Dawn No. 2 | 2/6/1933 | See Source »

Horror-struck amid a ghastly red-&-yellow glare, more than 200 Frenchmen stood on seven fiercely burning decks in the English Channel last week. The biggest liner ever to burn at sea, the 41,000-ton Atlantique, was belching to high heaven $18,000,000 worth of flame & smoke. Asphyxiated a few minutes after he sent her first and only S. O. S., the Atlantique's chief radio operator lay slumped against his smoldering instrument table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Too Exotic? | 1/16/1933 | See Source »

German Editors raged. The loan agreement, they recalled, pledges Austria not to join Germany in an anschluss (union). That was why Frenchmen, who want above all to keep Austria and Germany apart, voted as they did. "Chancellor Dollfuss of Austria," stormed Berlin's Deutsche Rundschau, "will figure in history as the Judas of the Germanic cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Judas | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

...fact that the older a woman grows the less beautiful she becomes. Obviously, during this process other charms must begin to outweigh beauty if the woman is still loved. Tabulating the returns from its questionnaire La Revue de la Femme was able to state on highest authority that Frenchmen esteem in women the following charms in proportions which vary as follows, according...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Love Formula | 1/2/1933 | See Source »

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