Word: frenchness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...over any damn Ding Dong." At Lang Son, a crowded market town nine miles to the southeast, a nipple-crested mountain that colonial troops named the "baroness's breast" overlooks the ruins of a fort demolished even before the Viet Minh's war against the French...
DIED. Jean Renoir, 84, master French film maker whose work strongly reflected his own ironic wit, love of nature and sympathetic curiosity about human behavior; of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Son of Impressionist Painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Jean as a red-haired child often posed for him and later married one of his models. With his wife as the star, Renoir directed his first movie in 1924; during the next 45 years he directed and wrote some three dozen films, among them such masterpieces as Toni (1934), the antiwar Grand Illusion (1937) and The Rules...
When the Franco-British grocery and newspaper baron Sir James Goldsmith bought the French weekly L'Express in 1977, he promised to leave editorial policy in the practiced hands of Editorial Director Philippe Grumbach whose center-right leanings contributed to the magazine's close ties to President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. But a year later, says Grumbach, when it looked as if a Socialist-Communist coalition might come to power (it did not), Goldsmith began shopping for an editor more sympathetic to the left. Grumbach was kicked upstairs into an executive job sans power, secretary...
Grumbach sued, and last month a French court found that he could not be dismissed summarily for his politics. Citing France's work code and its unique clause de conscience, which allows journalists to resign with full severance benefits if a politically hostile owner takes over their publication, the judges awarded Grumbach some $500,000 in back pay and indemnities. The decision sets no precedent under French law, but the size of the award is seen by some journalists as a sign that the courts may be on their side in ideological disputes caused by ownership changes. That...
...Goldsmith's lawyers were appealing the decision, Grumbach left on an extended skiing vacation. "I'm very optimistic," he says of his employment prospects. He might, however, have trouble finding a publisher who wants him. Though the Grumbach case is a matter of public record, no French newspaper or magazine has mentioned it. Says Pierre Salinger, former L'Express writer and White House press secretary: "Publishers fear that knowledge of this case would give journalists too many dangerous ideas as to the extent of their rights...