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...time in the U.S., where she studied the Women's Liberation movement. "What I saw and heard impressed me. I decided it was high time to strike a blow for women in France [by] attacking a citadel of male chauvinism. I wanted to put the immortals and all Frenchmen face to face with their contradictions...
Confronted with Paris' stiff prices, many a visiting American has wondered how the French manage to live at all well on their monthly salaries, which average far below U.S. scales. The answer is that Frenchmen do not get by on their salaries alone. Thanks to an elaborate system of vacation bonuses, workers receive up to 14 months' pay a year. Fringe benefits-from subsidized lunches to company-paid housing-are far more generous than those in the U.S. or Britain. Today Frenchmen are more than ever enjoying the good life, evident in the brisk trade of big department...
Aristocrats make just awful tyrants, admitted that fairest-minded of Frenchmen, Alexis de Tocqueville. But at their best, he insisted, "they rarely entertain groveling thoughts; and they show a kind of haughty contempt for petty pleasures, even when they indulge in them...
...reprisal for an attack on a German garrison by the Resistance, Nazi troops marched scores of Frenchmen to the Place de Souillac in the southwestern town of Tulle. From every tree in and around the little square, from every balcony and lamppost hung a rope with a ready noose; next to each stood two ladders and two waiting SS men. As each victim mounted one ladder, one of the Germans climbed the other, placed a noose around the Frenchman's neck, and pulled it tight. Then the other SS man yanked away the victim's ladder...
...could order Lammerding's arrest-if it feels it has sufficient evidence. Foreseeing that possibility, Lammerding recently turned his business affairs over to his son and moved to the West German village of Greiling, just across the border from Austria. If Germany does not arrest him, some Frenchmen have already threatened to settle the matter in their own way. Last month, when more than 5,000 mourners demonstrated in Tulle to demand punishment for Lammerding, many of them warned that they would organize a commando raid and kidnap him, as the Israelis had Adolf Eichmann...