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...eventual pardon, vindication and restoration to rank forms one of the most dramatic chapters in French history; but it makes the dullest part of this picture. In this part of the real story, the center of interest naturally shifts from Dreyfus to Emile Zola, Anatole France, Georges Clemenceau, Jean Jaurés, Maitre Labori and the other famous men who turned the Dreyfus Affair from a case into a cause. If only the camera had shifted with the interest, the picture might have built up an impressive concluding crescendo. Unfortunately, what would interest the moviegoer does not seem to interest...
...their morning newspapers the coffee drinkers on the boulevards read how police inspectors, making the rounds of Paris' Quartier Jean-Jaurès, had been jumped by four armed Algerians. Since the war began, gunfights between Algerians have been an everyday event in France proper (120 killed, 741 wounded this year), but this was a planned attack on Frenchmen in Paris. The worst fears of the Paris police were being realized: Algeria's nationalists had decided to bring their war to the mainland, not for military gains but for the counterterrorism that they calculated it would provoke...
Next day, an anguished howl was heard across Paris. The chiffoniers cried thatthe Prefect was out to rob 50,000 people of their honest work. Several thousand gathered in cramped, dim-lit Jean Jaurès Hall to hear stooped, 63-year-old René Cormaud, who "does" the rue des Ecoles and the rue Monge, defend chiffonage. Said Cormaud: "It's those fly-by-nights who cause all the trouble. They have no sense of professional standards. Instead of emptying each can carefully on a burlap sack to sort it out, they dump the garbage helter-skelter...
...cette guerre! This war! Et - brrrrr! This frrreezing cold! Never had Paris been so cold. Never had it been so hard to be -well dressed in Paris as it was last week. But pride must bear pain. "II jaur souffrir pour etre belle." At the famed House of Worth, the main salon beyond the double doors was empty...
...cette guerre! This war! Et - brrrrr! This frrreezing cold! Never had Paris been so cold. Never had it been so hard to be well dressed in Paris as it was last week. But pride must bear pain. "Il jaur souffrir pour étre belle." At the famed House of Worth, the main salon beyond the double doors was empty...