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DIED. ANDRE FROSSARD, 80, intellectual editorial writer for the French daily Le Figaro and noted Roman Catholic author of such books as Defense of the Pope (1993) that chronicled his close relationship with the present Pontiff; in Versailles. Frossard was an atheist and leftist in his youth, but, as he recalled in his 1968 best seller God Exists and I Met Him, he became a sudden Catholic convert...
Last week at the Hotel Continental, where the French Information Ministry is now installed, a bureaucratic mishap befell New Minister of Information Louis Frossard. He was not let into his own Ministry until the meticulous Republican Guard officer on duty, who from the first had recognized M. Frossard, wrote him out a temporary laissez passer for that day only, warned the Minister that he would not be admitted again unless he carried a proper pass bearing his photograph, stamped and signed...
Supple, ambitious Louis Frossard has been a Socialist, a Communist, then got a Cabinet job under Rightist Premier Pierre ("The Deal") Laval, today owns a newspaper called La Justice. Virtually every Paris paper reported he had taken as his office the Continental's super-ornate "Imperial Suite," in which lived for 30 years Eugenie, last Empress of the French -and after Eugenie, none except royal or titled guests until an exception was made for Admiral Byrd-but M. Frossard insisted he had not moved into Eugenie's rooms "because memories would stop me from sleeping." The onetime Communist...
...burning hoops, hurdle bayonet rows and dive over tanks, bespectacled, stocky, 34-year-old French Minister of Education Jean Zay last week started up 15,782 foot Mt. Blanc. Early entrants for the stiff mountain climb had included Vice Premier Camille Chautemps and Minister of Public Works Ludovic Oscar Frossard (later resigned) (see above). M. Chautemps, however, wrenched an arm at tennis, dropped out. M. Frossard took a test climb, returned puffing, decided to fly over Mt. Blanc instead...
Said Minister Zay: "I was unable myself to be the first to enter, but from the highest point I was able to reach I declare Vallot Refuge open." Said Colleague Frossard: "Thanks to Zay, the honor of the Government will be safe...