Word: jacquese
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Conservatives had little time to gloat. The 25.6% vote won by the ruling coalition of neo-Gaullists and center-rightists was a sharp rebuke in contrast to the 39.5% it had scored in last year's legislative polls. Moreover, the government's pro-European stance was undermined by an anti...
In the coming week, however, the most important vote is the one the summitteers themselves may take to replace Commission President Jacques Delors, who steps down in December after 10 historic years. The race is between Belgian Prime Minister Jean-Luc Dehaene, supported by France and Germany, and outgoing Dutch...
Camus is once again intriguing literary Paris. "His feverish voice is throughout," writes critic Francoise Giroud, "a voice that, at times, pierces your heart." In the newsmagazine Le Point, Jacques-Pierre Amette declares that "the voice of Camus, more resonant than ever in its trembling solemnity, addresses itself to today...
Much of the book's impact may be explained on these grounds alone: Who can resist an unauthorized peek at the inner life of a legend? Le Premier Homme has a confessional feeling, unmediated by any of the distancing ironies and disguises Camus employed in works published during his lifetime...
Jacques Toubon, a well-known advocate for the preservation of French culture, recently helped persuade the French government to bar the use of foreign words or cultural references in any written, audio or visual advertisements shown in France.