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...Larosière is the quintessential French bureaucrat. After earning master of arts and master of law degrees at the University of Paris, he attended the Ecole Nationale d'Administration, the training school for France's top civil servants. Designated an inspecteur des finances after graduation, he served in various economic policymaking posts before going...
...minority descended from the Huguenots within a predominantly Catholic country. The son of a Reims judge, he has excelled at whatever he undertook. He graduated first in a class of 300 at Paris' famed Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques, passed with highest marks the examinations to become an inspecteur des finances in the French civil service. By 1940, at 33, he had become the Finance Ministry's director of foreign exchange, but he disliked serving in Marshal Pétain's Vichy government...
...important portfolios: Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville went to the Treasury, while Finance Minister Michel Debré moved over to the Quai d'Orsay to take Couve's place. Aside from being an astute diplomat, Couve de Murville is an exceptionally effective administrator and an inspecteur des finances whose task will be to get France's shaken economy in order. Debré, always close to De Gaulle, can be expected to pick up on the general's foreign policy without missing a beat...
...More Games. By naming Wilfrid Baumgartner to Pinay's old job, De Gaulle adroitly sought to reassure France's business community that the Fifth Republic was not about to plunge into economic statism. Member of a famed French Protestant family, Baumgartner won the coveted title of inspecteur des finances at 27, has long been known as a "sound-money" man. He said that he had "formal assurances" that he could continue the policies "now underway...
...part of Insepctor Gallet is tailor made for the smooth, stony-faced Gabin, and he plays it to perfection, although a bit differently from the way Dostoevsky probably envisioned it. Gabin is the cever cop par excellence, and in the manner familiar to anyone who saw Inspecteur Maigret or Razzia, he steals the show...