Word: gallic
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...party in 1928, he met darkly handsome Silvia de Bondini, a painter and wife of an Italian diplomat. Silvia soon left her husband; after five years of trying to obtain an Italian divorce, she was whisked to Moscow by Monnet, for a quick Moscow divorce and wedding. The gay Gallic bachelor became a devoted family man (the Monnets have two grown daughters). At their home at Houjarray, some 20 miles west of Paris,, he often talks through his notions with Silvia while she paints...
Whistles & Boos. With true Gallic instinct for the wrong moment, the National Assembly last week thrust its own challenge at De Gaulle-almost as if to show that it was not moved by the assassination attempt. Since last April, the Assembly had chafed under the constitution's Article 16, which gave De Gaulle power to brush aside the debates of the Deputies as "Fourth Republic games" and run France as he pleased. To protest against De Gaulle's emergency powers, the Assembly chose a purely technical issue. De Gaulle's Premier Michel Debre bluntly refused a special...
...F.L.N. fighting men. But his terrorist campaign had failed, and he and his policies were temporarily discredited. Instead, a government in exile was set up in neighboring Tunisia under respectable Ferhat Abbas, who hoped to win foreign support through nonviolent diplomacy and to convince the French through Gallic logic. Ben Khedda was shunted to a minor Cabinet post, and became the first F.L.N. dignitary to lead an official mission to Red China. After touring other Communist countries as an ambassador at large, he turned up as a persuasive F.L.N. propagandist in Latin America, and received a VIP welcome from Cuba...
Just as the bullfight affords ordered release for the latent ferocity of Spain, bicycle racing brings Gallic veto worship to near ecstasy each spring and summer. It reaches its peak with the Tour de France...
...popular fiction, France and Vamour are nearly synonymous. A foreigner attempting to enlighten the Frenchman on the subject simply invites the slings and arrows of outraged Gallic sensibility. But in fact, love and its consequences in France have a darker side: there are at least 400,000 illegal (and therefore dangerous ) abortions each year, and many authorities believe that the total is 800,000-equal to the number of live births. Authorities see a significant relation between this high abortion rate and the fact that the prescription and sale of all contraceptives is forbidden by a French law passed...