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...address announced his plans for a strengthened presidential system by which his successor would be elected directly by the people (TIME, Sept. 21). Though De Gaulle's proposal would short-circuit the constitution and has already enraged politicians of all parties, his grandiloquent dialogue between "you Frenchmen and Frenchwomen and my self" only heightened the curious blend of awe, irritation and amusement with which most Frenchmen today regard their President. Through endless anecdotes, his mordant wit and sovereign self-assurance have become as firmly lodged in the French imagination as Cyrano's nose...
Most significant of all, in Grenoble the first family-planning clinic publicly opened its doors last month. Attracted by the slogan "A Wanted Child Is a Happy Child.'' Frenchwomen filled the clinic. Its 21 volunteer doctors can legally give only information and advice; but, increasingly, doctors are risking their professional careers to write prescriptions for female contraceptives, which still can be filled only outside France. Next step in Dr. Weill-Halle's crusade: a birth-control information center in Paris, soon to be followed by centers in each of France's major cities...
...when I proposed building the public baths along the Strandway, I was greeted with a chorus of recriminations from the opposition party. They had a terrifying vision: hundreds of the poor would now be able to take baths regularly! For their part, they want our poor to be like Frenchwomen. A Frenchwoman, as you know, takes a bath but twice in her life: once when she enters it, and once when she leaves it. In between times she uses talcum powder. It's a well-known fact that the Republicans have a vested interest in the talcum powder industry...
Diane (M-G-M). Diane de Poitiers (1499-1566) was one of the greatest of Frenchwomen. "She animated a century," says a French biographer. "She created a style." A woman of rare beauty, she was the mistress of a king (Henry II) 20 years her junior, and held his love until he died. In a day when woman's place was in the home, she ruled France well and wisely for more than a decade (1547-59). A patroness of the arts, she was the muse of Jean Goujon, whose finest statue is a portrait of Diane as Diana...
...French at the Sorbonne and European politics at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris. Afterwards he did welfare work and freelance writing before he joined TIME'S Paris Bureau in 1951. A U.S. expatriate who loves France, Karnow listened, week after week, as young Frenchmen and Frenchwomen indicted not only their elders but their ancestors...