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...Frenchmen who have played a part in perfecting the picture-sending process are Inventors Belin, Holweck and Deauvillier In France, there is some broadcasting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Television Leaves the Laboratory | 8/25/1930 | See Source »

Since New Year's, Frenchmen have celebrated with pomp & circumstance the hundredth anniversaries of Romanticism, of the conquest of Algeria, of the invention of the sewing machine.* Last week in Paris, their centennial enthusiasm undiminished, President Gaston Doumergue and Prime Minister André Tardieu clapped on their silk hats, motored to the Hotel de Ville behind a clattering escort of brass-helmeted cuirassiers of the Garde Républicaine to make oratory on the Hundredth Anniversary of the Revolution of 1830, which in three days of furious street fighting† swept Charles X from the throne of France, installed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Again 1830 | 8/11/1930 | See Source »

...below and also the one directly above that which she occupies. . . . But Messieurs! I am far from admitting that the Princess de Broglie is incompetent to administer her great fortune, incompetent to choose the man she loves who in marriage will bring her happiness! I appeal to you as Frenchmen, as men of chivalry and honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Cocks & Donkeys | 8/4/1930 | See Source »

...Guaranteed Deaths." On the Verification of Deaths Bill there was stirring debate. "Messieurs we must spare Frenchmen the terrible agony of burial by mistake!," cried one protagonist. "What happened to the Abbe Donnat? On the day of his ordination he fell into a state of complete lethargy and was pronounced dead. Had he been buried at once what a great, what an irreparable loss to France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Buried Alive? | 7/21/1930 | See Source »

Musical?FIFTY MILLION FRENCHMEN (TIME, Dec. 9), SIMPLE SIMON (TIME, March 3), STRIKE UP THE BAND (TIME, Jan. 27), SONS o' GUNS (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Table: Jun. 16, 1930 | 6/16/1930 | See Source »

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