Word: frenchness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moreover, the French economy is essentially sound. In food and industrial resources, France is largely self-sufficient. It is not yet in real balance of payments difficulties. The crisis of the franc was primarily created by the lure of volatile capital funds into the mark by speculators who believed it was about to be revalued. In strict and narrow economic terms, France does not need a devaluation...
...only does the current international monetary crisis reinforce cliches about national character; it also reveals that Germany is even stronger and France is weaker than many observers had previously believed. The French government is paying the price for giving in last spring to striking workers' demands for big wage increases. Those demands had been caused largely by the De Gaulle government's past policies of creating prosperity by holding down wages and skimping on social needs. In addition, France has long suffered from the tendency of many of its people to distrust their own currency, to put profit...
...direction, the National Liberation Committee has moved quickly to consolidate its rule. It ordered statues and portraits of the imposing Keita torn down, the Red Guard militia abolished. Free elections have been promised, and private enterprise has been invited into the country. Clearly, the new rulers of the former French colony were abandoning Keita's policy of increasing dependence on Communist China and the Soviet Union. In Paris, officials were something less than dismayed by the coup. Keita had failed to keep pledges of reform made in exchange for French support of Mali's currency, and there were...
...aura of a shrine. And for good reason. There hung Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, the Louvre's-and the world's-most famous painting. When Culture Minister Andre Malraux decided to redecorate the gallery and install in it the museum's collection of French paintings, the first question was what could possibly replace La Giaconda's enigmatic smile? The answer, decided Director Andre Parrot and Curator Michel Laclotte, was the tragic clown figure, Gilles, painted in 1720 by Antoine Watteau. And surprisingly, the replacement so far has met with nothing but approval...
...Flemish-born painter had run away to Paris at the age of 18, then studied with Stage Designer Claude Gillot and Interior Decorator Claude Audran before striking out on his own. The times cried out for a chronicler. After the aged Sun King, Louis XIV died in 1715, French society, under the leadership of the dissolute regent, the Due d'Orleans, gave itself over to a rabid pursuit of pleasure, rivaling that of Imperial Rome. Hairdos, fashions and morals reached undreamed-of heights, lengths and depths. Theaters, operas and court ballets were packed the year round, while gentlefolk staged...