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...Gaulle. Its characters range from French-Algerian "Secret Army" Colonel Antoine Argoud to Communist Leader Jacques Duclos, from a patriotic old Lorraine grocer to a Gandhi-quoting Algerian nationalist. The two film makers, who describe themselves as non-Communist leftists, use all these characters to document their thesis: that liberté, egalité, fraternité are more rhetoric than fact...
Winning the Works. Down at the Café de l'Agriculture, on the corner of the Place de la République and the Rue de la Liberté, the talk turns easily to the mayor himself. The men around the bar call Dabard "our own little De Gaulle" and yarn about his imperious tactics. The new water works? Ah, well, Dabard knew that the town council disapproved, so he appointed an independent commission to "study" the plan. To no one's surprise, the commission thought the project was splendid, and Dabard signed a construction contract. The council...
...between the average Frenchman's acceptance of De Gaulle's policies (e.g., decolonization and national independence) and his corresponding rejection of De Gaulle's archaic governing methods (e.g., suppression of government criticism). Le Nez est fini because the French people desire an end to his particular liberté, égalité, sénilit...
...onetime chef aboard the French Line's Liberté and later at Manhattan's perfectionist Carlyle Hotel, French-born René was hired by John F. Kennedy in April 1961. He made a memorable White House debut with trout cooked in Chablis as the entrée at a luncheon for former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. The Kennedys' treasure later won international renown with such dishes as chicken in champagne sauce and an incomparable quenelles de brochet. But one President's meat is another's poisson, and under L.B.J. the mâitre soon...
...attempt made more headlines than it did progress. Cantave's men took two tiny peasant villages, Meyac and Dérac. From there the invasion force pushed on to Fort Liberté. The garrison fired on the invaders, and the invaders fired back. After hours of sporadic gunplay, the invaders retreated into the hills, perhaps to fight another...