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...fold. Thirty-five old Dupuis is the Liberal Party's ace-in-the-hole, their answer to Caouette. Involved in Quebec politics since the age of 25, when he was elected to the Provincial Legislature, Dupis has been described as a Young Paul Martin, a powerful speaker with the Gallic flair of Caouette. His oratorical gesticulations have been on French television for the past six weeks in preparation for his contest in the riding of St. Jean-Iberville against Dollard Richard an influential member of the Socreds. Dupuis's line: "It's time to show that Caouette is doing nothing...
...national party's cause in the providence. His popularity will draw undecided voters into Liberal's ranks. The key to a Liberal victory in the province of Quebec, however, is a 35 year-old Liberal back-bencher by the name of Yvon Dupuis. His oratory is accompanied by much Gallic arm-flailing and fist-clenching. The party hopes he will provide the difference between victory and defeat in a hard-fought battle with the Socred party in Quebec...
...right for De Gaulle to annoy the perfidious English, the vulgar Americans or the impossible Belgians," huffed a Gallic gourmet in Paris last week, meanwhile extracting a gobbet of white succulence from a pink lobster tail. "But to endanger lobster shipments, so vital to France, by picking a fight with the Brazilians-that's too much...
...work is keen and sardonic, but the episode from France, directed by François (Jules and Jim) Truffaut, makes the other three look sick sick sick. It is cruel, touching, funny. It is true to life at an age when life is true to art. It is Gallic Salinger, the case history of a growing pain...
Died. Francis Poulenc, 64, prolific French composer, a tall, ruddy-faced man with a boisterous Gallic wit, who at 18 wrote his piano showpiece Perpetual Motion, shortly thereafter joined the rebellious "Les Six," a group of young composers (among them: Darius Milhaud, Arthur Honegger, Georges Auric) that left a bright mark on contemporary French music; of a heart attack; in Paris. In later years Poulenc's gay, airy theatrical music gave way to a more highly sustained and emotional style in such formidable pieces as The Dialogues of the Carmelites, a melodic opera based on the 1789 martyrdom...