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...French novels have been published in the U. S., and at one period in 1931-32 translations of them appeared almost every other month. That the reserve of untranslated Colette novels was rapidly being exhausted, many an enthusiast realized with regret last week when the latest item in this Frenchwoman's list appeared...
Sextuplets Arrive! FRENCHWOMAN BEATS DIONNE MOTHER...
...France things are different. Under sentence of death in Paris last week lay a surly, silent 19-year-old girl named Violette Nozières. Not since 1887, when Jeanne Thomas was executed for burning up her mother in the fireplace, had a Frenchwoman paid the supreme penalty for murder. French juries are notoriously tender with wives who murder their husbands, but Violette Nozières was no wife. A spoiled brat with a fondness for nightclubs and loose living, she succeeded, after many attempts, in poisoning her father, a railway engineer, and her mother. Then she turned...
...Agin the government'' in every possible way, Heretic Nock makes some general observations that may well shock traditional minds. "A pretty Frenchwoman is worth mention; I never saw more than three that I can remember." Disbelievers in capital punishment will applaud his shrewdness: "When kidnapping was made a capital crime, probably not a single legislator realized that he was voting to put a premium on murder, and to provide a direct encouragement to lynching." A life- long believer in the late Henry George's single tax, he has "never propagandized for it, because our people would...
...many a Yankee eye he tells a burlesque tale that is at the same time an uproariously effective caricature of French politics, French traits. Henry Jones, solemn U. S. citizen temporarily resident in Paris while writing a cookbook designed to glorify French cuisine, is accused by a Frenchwoman of having walked off from a restaurant with her husband's coat. In the course of their parley a crowd collects. The spirit of Verdun and the iniquity of the War debts are mentioned, and by the time they have reached the Vive la France! stage the mob has grown...