Word: les
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Along the narrow, tortuous streets of old Quebec City banners urged: "Allans à I'Exposition." At the rate of 31,000 a day les Québecois poured into town-children, priests, nuns, farmers from Beauce and Beaupré. On the fairgrounds down on the flats of St. François parish they drank gallons of petite bière d'épinette, a mild sort of Gallic root beer; ate tons of frites (French fried potatoes); the children rode the miniature airplanes and the loop-the-loops, jubilantly dizzy...
Columbia Workshop (Sun. 4 p.m., CBS). Path in the Door, psychodrama by Les Crutchfield...
...into a hotel, stayed on to manage it. Among their first customers were bashful, leathernecked Pierre Barrière, a railroad worker, and his pert, white-satined bride, Jane Cantarel. Their horny-handed wedding guests, stimulated by wine and altitude, made the bishops' terrace ring with the raucous Les Montagnards (The Mountain People...
...realization of their national loneliness. Isolation in war had seemed necessary and honorable. But, however bountiful materially, isolation now seemed spiritually bleak. The Swiss were quietly but unmistakably heavy-hearted about their prosperity. On their 655th independence day they felt as Voltaire did, when from his Swiss refuse at Les Délices he viewed the Europe of the 1750s...
...world's great fiction traditions none is hardier than the encyclopedic chronicle of French national life. Honoré de Balzac's La Comedie Humaine was a procession of some 90 stories. Then came Emile Zola's 20-volume series of novels, Les Rougon-Macquart. Now Jules Romains' Men of Good Will, a study of French history and habits between 1908 and 1933, has reached its 13th and penultimate volume...