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...pioneer of the new penitentiary doctrine which, so far as possible, would keep the prisoner from any contact with the prison." But all this was of no avail. Ex-Warden Billa was sentenced to serve three years at hard labor in a tougher prison, where liberté, égalité and fraternité are only words on official documents...
...French Republic, one and indivisible." "Que Vous Êtes Swing!" Today Larousse no longer goes in for such acerbity, but in its own way, it still manages to mirror the changing spirit of France. Under angoisse (anxiety), the new supplement quite naturally includes a discussion of existentialism; under égalité (equality), it notes that the "preamble of the [French] Constitution of 1946 completes this principle . . ." There are brief biographies of Lillian Gish (revived with Duel in the Sun") and Charles Chaplin, "the most authentic genius of the cinema." Picasso has swelled to 77 lines; Malenkov and Beria have arrived...
...more subtlety-for this was over her audience's head-she took a crack at racial snobbery. She referred, without elaboration, to "the Gobineaus and the Houston Chamberlains"-meaning the Comte de Gobineau (1816-82), one of the first racists, who in Essai sur I' Inégalité des Races Humaines argued that only the white races are capable of creating culture; of Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855-1926), the fantastic Englishman who married Richard Wagner's daughter Eva, and wrote that Germany is the master race...
...mummery with the old Marshal who is no longer strong enough to steer. Pierre Laval and Marshal Pétain would stand at salute while buglers sounded taps before Vichy's memorial to the 1,300,000 Frenchmen who died under the banner of liberté, égalité, fraternité in World...
...unguarded speech which has cost Léon Blum some votes and perhaps won him others, the No. 1 French Socialist pledged that the Republic's first Socialist Cabinet will give France a vacance de légalité or "lapse from legality" resembling the NRA and AAA honeymoons...