Word: monsieurs
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...quite knew why he had been invited. His name was not on the familiar, tattered guest list of acceptable Premiers. There was little in his past to indicate that Monsieur Pinay, the tanner from St. Chamond, could last long or do well...
...judge went on to describe her subsequent marriage, her husband's meteoric career and her own sense of inadequacy as he forged ahead. "You drank too much coffee? You smoked too many cigarettes? You made abusive scenes, scenes of jealousy?" "Not true, monsieur," sobbed Yvonne...
Described by Chaplin as "a drama with comedy relief," Limelight avoids the ideological preoccupations and messages of his three previous films, Monsieur Verdoux (1947), The Great Dictator (1940) and Modern Times (1936), and goes back to the simple little tramp-meets-girl, loves-girl, loses-girl theme of his famed silent movies. But Chaplin no longer plays the tramp with the cane, battered derby, brush mustache and oversized shoes. In Limelight he is a dapper, though slightly seedy (and in heavy stage make-up rather repulsive) clown in spats and velvet-collared coat. Only a few reminders...
Alas, at 5:30 next morning, Monsieur Jean-Pierre Abeille, prefect of Savoie, descended on the village with 350 armed Republican Security Guards. Before anyone could sound a tocsin on the church bells, M. Abeille had seized the municipal records, thus putting the village officially out of existence. Warned M. Abeille: unless the villagers moved out forthwith, they would get no compensation money...
...chair overlooking France's Assembly to announce that one of its members, Jacques Ducreux, 41, had been killed in an auto smashup. At once the other deputies stood up, according to custom, to wait for the expected eulogy. They knew this one would probably take time: after all, Monsieur Ducreux was a member of the executive committee of Herriot's own Radical Socialist Party. Herriot started off in style: he limned the pastoral beauties of the Vosges countryside where Ducreux came from, and recalled its people's heroism during the Franco-Prussian War. But then, after effusive...