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...both his nation and the world sensed the magnitude of their loss. At the tiny country churchyard where he was buried and along Paris' Champs-Elysées, hundreds of thousands of Frenchmen paid him homage. The world's dignitaries journeyed to Paris for a memorial service in greater numbers than for any other event in French history. Le Monde called it "a planetary mourning." Flags were lowered to half-mast not only in Paris but also in London and far-off Peking. Among thousands of condolence messages that reached Madame de Gaulle was one from China...
...France erupted in chaos, as students battled police and striking workers seized plants. Shaken, De Gaulle returned and, after making certain of the army's support, finally rallied his country. After a ringing speech ("I shall not withdraw. I have a mandate from the people."), a million Frenchmen marched down the Champs-Elysées in support of De Gaulle...
...civilest service of all? Many Frenchmen seem to think so, and there is a campaign building now to institutionalize the point. Back in the halcyon haze of the '20s and '30s maisons de tolérance such as the Sphinx, the Chabanais and above all the One-Two-Two (for 122 Rue de Provence) were Parisian tourist attractions outranking the Louvre and Napoleon's tomb. During World War II, however, the bordellos disintegrated in quality-the Gestapo used them as intelligence sources-and in 1946, Marthe Richard, a municipal council member, led a successful campaign to outlaw...
...measure, the first of its kind in a capitalist country, is stirring a howling controversy. Some Frenchmen argue that the bill should also include government leaders. They remain exempt, apparently on the assumption that what is dotage in business is simply seasoning in politics...
...found the subtitle of my book. Nasser symbolized a "search for dignity" throughout the Asian-African world. He emerged from the grass roots, from the silt of the Nile Valley. He was determined to make his people feel proud to be Egyptians instead of posing as carbon copies of Frenchmen or anyone else...