Word: frenchmens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American cook. The book's highlight is a 50-page section on making genuine French breads with all-purpose American flour. The basic process takes seven hours at the very least. But anyone who perseveres will be rewarded by the characteristic chewy loaf with the crackly crust that Frenchmen can acquire for a two-minute trip to the local boulangerie. Other lengthy sections in Julia II deal with the production of charcuterie (sausages) and puff pastry...
...towns throughout the country. One rechristening has created a national furor: the Paris municipal council's unanimous but hasty decision last week to change the Place de 1'Etoile to Place Charles de Gaulle. Judging from newspaper editorials and talk in the bistros, vast numbers of Frenchmen seemed to feel that the famous site of the Arc de Triomphe and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is too sacrosanct to be renamed for any individual, however great...
...estimated 200,000 cars are funneled every day into the grand circle from twelve avenues. Still, the place maintains its grandeur. All Paris seems to begin there, radiating majestically outward from the arch. The eternal flame flickers over the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Against that setting, countless Frenchmen, who only a week before had solemnly laid a great floral Cross of Lorraine there to honor Charles de Gaulle, nodded approval of the demonstrators who marched down the Champs-Elysees toward the great landmark proclaiming: "Leave us our Etoile...
...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...
...weary Frenchmen, fed up with continual government crises, were hap py to let De Gaulle do the deciding. By an overwhelming margin, they approved the new constitution in a referendum and elected De Gaulle the first President of the new Fifth Republic. He quickly took firm control...