Word: jacquese
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Nobody was happy over the way things were going. French prestige abroad was suffering one defeat after another. First there was the massive repudiation by Saar voters of France's ten-year rule. Snorted Deputy Jacques Vendrous, De Gaulle's brother-in-law: "France played cards while the...
In French high cultural circles, mere excellence is not considered the whole guarantee of immortality. The distinguished men who at any one time occupy the 40 chairs of the famed Académie Française enjoy a specific patent of immortality that dates back to Cardinal Richelieu. But many...
For seven years, the 1,200 patient citizens of the farming village of Ifs in Northwest France had put up with Headmaster Jacques Mériel of the town's new elementary school. After all, they told each other, he was a harmless, peaceful sort of man. They attributed...
Palestrina to Berlin. The French, numbering 32 boys, wore knee pants and white stockings for the secular half of their program (seven, whose voices had changed, wore long pants), switched to white robes for sacred songs. They performed both with easy professionalism. Led by greying, bearlike Monsignor Fernand Maillet, 59...
White Terror. The French lashed back desperately. Thousands of Moroccans were jailed, tens of thousands beaten in brutal ratissages (literally, rakings-in) staged by the colonial police. Then the French colons began taking the law into their own hands. Nervous and jittery, like the British settlers in Kenya at the...