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...believed in God, I would promise hell for anyone who believes in austerity." Barre, for his part, ripped into Socialist Leader François Mitterrand, whose Common Program with the Communists he likened to Dr. Faust's pact with the devil. Said Barre in the city of Caen: "Monsieur Mitterrand has played with fire, and now he is beginning to burn. He signed a pact, as Faust did, to regain his youth. Now the day of reckoning has arrived...
Later Chirac declared that no country had ever gone from a "regime of liberty to a regime of socialism and back again to liberty. I don't say that Monsieur Mitterrand wishes to install a gulag in France," he conceded, but he warned that France under leftist rule would eventually resemble the Soviet-bloc countries. Back in Strasbourg that evening, Chirac delivered another rousing denunciation of the left to 4,500 Gaullist faithful. Sighed one elderly admirer: "He is the dauphin of Charles de Gaulle...
...very proud, monsieur!" exclaimed a high cultural official after one of Courbet's outbursts against government. "Monsieur," he retorted, "I am the most arrogant man in France." So he was. Courbet considered himself the Michelangelo of socialism. In the 1848 revolution, he bragged, "there were only two men ready-me and Proudhon." The 1871 revolution found him on the side of the Paris Commune, which called for the demolition of that symbol of "false glory," the Vendome Column. Later, the Commune crushed, a vengeful state passed a law to make Courbet bear the cost of restoring the column. Bankrupt...
...world governed by laws written by men and for men. Such an outdated paean to the macho ethic confirms your suspicion that the dirty hands of the movie belong neither to Schneider's murderess nor to her accomplice in crime and sin, but rather to their creator, Monsieur Chabrol...
...include a single close ally of Jacques Chirac, the newly elected mayor of Paris who trounced Michel d'Ornano, Giscard's personal choice for the job. Giscard did his best to gloss over this humiliating loss. When Chirac was formally presented at the Elysée as "Monsieur le Maire de Paris," the President graciously responded, "Et cher ami" (and dear friend). Later Chirac tried to cool tempers at a meeting of Gaullist parliamentarians, many of whom had been openly derisive of Giscard. "We will be loyal," he said, "but we will exercise our vigilance to make sure...