Word: frenchness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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COOGAN'S BLUFF. French him critics have long hailed Director Don Siegel as a minor genius, and this film is ample proof that his reputation is no Gallic caprice. With measured professionalism, Siegel tells the story of an Arizona sheriff (Clint Eastwood) who travels to New York to extradite a prisoner...
...Gaulle was at his country home in the quiet village of Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises in eastern France. His Premier, Maurice Couve de Murville, was on the Riviera, trying to extract some warmth from the pale Mediterranean sun. Brigitte Bardot was in the Alps, along with thousands of other French women and men who had trooped to the ski slopes in record numbers. Le tout Paris was caught up in a frenzied swirl of parties and balls that surprised even veteran socialites. "I have never seen such a social season," the Duke of Windsor told friends. "We have been going...
Things are probably not quite that bad; the French have a taste for hyperbole. But the big Bordeaux daily SudOuest found that 66.2% of its readers polled were pessimistic about how France and its people would fare in 1969. Sensing the country's disquiet, De Gaulle conceded to his ministers at a recent Cabinet meeting that "the atmosphere in France is melancholic...
Effective at Mystifying. To a large degree, De Gaulle has only himself to blame. In June's national elections, French voters gave Gaullists the first absolute majority granted any French party in the National Assembly in nearly a century. However, as former Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing last week put it, "The results of the elections did not show an expression of confidence but a need for confidence." De Gaulle, now 78, has of late seemed to lose his ability to provide the forceful leadership France requires. "In the country of Louis XIV, to be governed means...
Part of the problem rests with De Gaulle's choice of Premiers. Shortly after the election landslide, De Gaulle summarily replaced his longtime Premier, Georges Pompidou, whose air of solidity and jovial good sense appealed to French voters. His replacement, former Foreign Minister Couve de Murville, was highly effective at mystifying and icily putting down foreign diplomats. He is far less effective at reassuring French voters. Couve is, in fact, what one of his rivals calls "too Anglo-Saxon." In other words, the Premier, who is a member of France's Protestant minority, is too austere, cool...