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Such dubious investments have always had a special appeal for the gold-hoarding French. As a result, perhaps one-eighth of the estimated $30 billion worth of privately held gold in the world is now in French hands. One reason is that many Frenchmen see gold as a hedge against the kind of devaluation that plagued the franc after World...
Good or Bad. To many Frenchmen, the scene recalled the Popular Fronts that surged to power in the '30s under the banner of militant antifascism. For all the fanfare, however, the new leftist pact was a far cry from that. Although the new league agreed in general that such things as De Gaulle's force de frappe and the American bombing of North Viet Nam were bad and that birth control and capital-gains taxes were good, its members found much more to disagree on, such as whether NATO was good or bad. So divided were the parties...
...Most Frenchmen seem a little bored with the grandeur of De Gaulle. These days, they find glory enough in a little Gallic warrior who has a droopy yellow mustache and wears a winged beanie, whose force de frappe is not a nuclear bomb but a magic potion that contains-as a bow to the French palate-lobster. The whole nation has come to adore a comic-book hero whose name suggests a mere footnote to history. He is Astérix Le Gaulois, leader of a hilarious village of "unsubdued and irksome" Gauls still holding out against Caesar...
...American scene, St. John de Crevecoeur, in 1782. Emerson elaborated and sustained the vision, and by 1908, Israel Zangwill, an admiring English Jew, was completely carried away: "America is God's Crucible, the great Melting Pot where all races of Europe are merging and reforming . . . Germans and Frenchmen, Irishmen and Englishmen, Jews and Russians-into the Crucible with you all! God is making the American...
...family-owned firms, whose self-satisfied owners are often reluctant to risk expansion or spend for modernization. Of the 30 biggest industrial companies outside the U.S., twelve are German, ten British, but only two are French (Renault and Rhône-Poulenc). Expansion capital is hard to come by. Frenchmen are wary of investing, often prefer to sock their savings into real estate and gold. They have seen too many investments demolished by wars and inflations, and their fears have hardly been allayed by the 40% plunge in the French stock market since...