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...accused Frédéric Dupont, a Paris city councilor for 13 years, of "intelligence with the enemy" during the occupation. Rightists answered that such an accusation should be heard in a court of law, not in the legislature. The Reds promptly let go with shrill invective. Pierre Hervé, Communist intellectual, flung "Vichyite!" at Rightist André Mutter. The wizened but agile editor leaped up and started across the floor with fists doubled. One-armed André Le Trocquer, Socialist ex-Minister of the Interior, and two stiff-shirted, bechained ushers restrained Mutter. Meanwhile, the bedlam grew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Stumble | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

...Suave Count Hervé de Grandsailles, who gave a brilliant dinner party where "congested epiderms . . . empurpled the candelabra," and the guests' faces were "caught in the ferocious meshes of anamorphosis." With "faint but delightful anguish" the Count detected in the "immaculate turgescence" of his cream cheese "the animal femininity of the she-goat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Meshes of Anamorphosis | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

...Gustave Hervé, editor-in-chief of the Victoire, who in 1917 was foremost in the clamor for Clemenceau, and who is now believed to speak for the Elysee, wrote thus of Premier Poincaée: "It is most regrettable that a man who is so upright, a patriot so sincere, a worker so prodigious, should fail France which counted so much on him. By whom can he be replaced? Is there none better among our politicians? Yes, there is old Clemenceau and his team. They made the Treaty of Versailles which was not perfect, which was not as good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Clemenceau Revival? | 2/25/1924 | See Source »

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