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...also a history of producing men on horseback, from Napoleon Bonaparte to Napoleon III to the "brav' g??néral" Georges Boulanger, who failed to seize power only through a crucial loss of nerve in 1889. The first elected President of the Third Republic was a soldier, Marshal MacMahon; the last act of the Third Republic was to surrender its powers to another soldier, Marshal Pétain. The rebirth of France began when General de Gaulle disobeyed the Pétain government, which had made peace with the Nazis, and launched the Free French movement...
...Organization. At Salan's signal, pied-noir demonstrators rush from their homes shouting "De Gaulle to the gallows!" and hammer out on dishpans the deafening rhythm of "Al-g??-rie Fran-caise!" Salan's nod is sufficient to explode plastic bombs* under the bed of a Gaullist security chief in Oran or on the doorstep of a police inspector in Algiers. After each deed, Salan's men boast: "The S.A.O. strikes when it wants, how it wants, where it wants...
...this full-dress biography, the late French Critic G??rard Jean-Aubry, editor of Conrad's letters, has taken soundings along the well-charted course of the Conrad legend. The legend is well known? the young Polish exile who began to learn English from Lowestoft sailors at 21, became a ship's master at 29, voyaged to the Caribbean and the China Seas, and who, at 36, took to the shore and, despite poverty, neglect and illness, made himself a master novelist. It is all true. Jean- Aubry, who spent 20 years writing this book, fills in the blank spaces...
When the French Poet G??rard de Nerval was asked why he walked a lobster on a leash down a Paris boulevard one day in the 1840s, he replied: "He knows the secrets of the sea." Until very modern times, most of the sea's secrets have been known only to the sea's inhabitants, and they never tell. In the last two decades, however, a new species has joined the finny tribe: the men-fish, who, with flippers on their feet and an air tank on their backs, go down into the waters and come back to tell what...
Emmy Sonnemann also made a try at a theatrical comeback, but it was no go. Actress Emmy?who shot to fame by becoming Frau Hermann G??ring?got no further than a denazification board, which turned down her application to get back into show business...