Word: giraudoux
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...tongue cut out for resisting the advances of Roman Emperor Valerian), Anastasie was revived by a French satirical weekly, Le Canard Enchaine, when World War II began. She presides over the crowded corridors of the Hotel Continental in the Rue de Castiglione, home of Jean Hippolyte Giraudoux's Ministry of Information...
From the Continental come terse, dry bulletins issued by the Army General Staff, and cunning propaganda stories (of plots to restore the Kaiser, failure of German food supplies) concocted by Playwright Giraudoux himself. There, too, in sumptuous rooms that once housed U. S. tourists, censors sit poring over proofs of tomorrow's papers, ferreting out lines that might give information to the enemy...
...Commissariat of Information were such pillars of French letters as Paul Claude), the Roman Catholic poet and onetime Ambassador to the U. S., and Paul Valery, who presented the first wartime performance of the Comedie Fran-Qaise. André Maurois took a post in the censorship under Jean Giraudoux (TIME...
Reliable sources indicated last night that Andre Morize, professor of French, has applied for one year's leave of absence to take up a position with the French Ministry of Propaganda under the direction of Jean Giraudoux, former Harvard instructor...
...well known French lecturer will collaborate with the Minister of Propaganda in censoring news and issuing communiques to the press concerning war developments. Giraudoux and Morize were assigned by the French Government to Harvard in 1917 to instruct future members of the A.E.F. in trench warfare...