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Baudelaire's gloomy intensity and obvious poetic ability, soon made him a marked man in a Paris that swarmed with talents. One of the first Frenchmen to discover Edgar Allan Poe (whom he considered his affinity), Baudelaire was Poe's French translator, and some critics aver the translation betters the original. With no sense of money, he was never out of debt; and his poverty, complicated by Luciferian pride and creeping illness, might have brought him to an unknown end had it not been for his mother and his friends who loved him. He died...
...high cost of living in France which causes anxiety to all Frenchmen and their families, is due to our amazing rise in gold stores, because currency inflation is the chief factor in the upward movement of prices. . . . The flow of French long-term credits to nations which are badly in need of financial aid will prove the only natural...
...victory of Kufra with mixed feelings. The southern boundary of Libya which adjoins French Africa has never been definitely settled. As long as Italy was unable to control Southern Libya the question was purely academic but last week's victory put actual Italian troops uncomfortably near actual Frenchmen...
French thesis: the majority of French War bonds are held by Frenchmen who have quietly taken their loss, let the British minority holders take their loss as quietly, make good the ancient boast that "Englishmen are better sportsmen than Frenchmen...
...Frenchmen were listening in, listening hard. To them the speech was far more important than to Americans. Italy is their potential enemy and vice versa. Next day the entire Paris press betrayed profound relief at the quiet tone of Il Ditce's speech, the solemn, personal nature of his long keynote...