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...became evident again in the latest of De Gaulle's cross-country tours. On Corsica the fierce, gun-happy islanders (strict security forbade the sky-aimed salvos with which they usually welcome visitors) quickly warmed to the President when he eloquently referred to Corsica's favorite son, Napoleon. In the South of France, coatless despite a severe head cold, De Gaulle drew cheers everywhere except in Marseille, where Red dock workers and right-wing ultras heckled him. In speech after speech, he asserted that peace negotiations would begin immediately with the Algerian F.L.N...
...child's eyes out. Kids can read of a Cruel Boy who pulled the legs from flies, a Kind Boy who freed his caged bird, a Tease who frightened a playmate into insanity. The books excerpt Shakespeare, Byron, Scott and Whittier; McGuffey's great characters are Napoleon, Louis XVI. Lafayette and Washington. And William Holmes McGuffey (1800-73), an Ohio minister and schoolmaster, never spared the verse...
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There lives today near Paris an ascetic, unobtrusive Frenchman who may ultimately succeed where others, from Charlemagne to Napoleon, ultimately failed. He commands no armies or popular following, but his work is worth uncounted divisions to the West. He has neither title nor portfolio, but he has privileged access to every chancellery of Western Europe. He has no formal higher education, but the world's most brilliant economists regard him as their peer. He has never joined a political party, but parliamentarians across Europe flock to his summons. His name is Jean Monnet, and he is the practical apostle...
Insistent Drum. Frenchmen can read more than history in Holy Week. They can read of a France beset far more sorely than she is today-bled white and depopulated by Napoleon's wars, split by divided loyalties and false dreams-and find consolation for today's troubles in the knowledge that within two generations, France was to rise again to lead the Continent. In one of the disconcerting asides to the reader with which he interrupts his narrative, Aragon writes: "Perhaps this book falsely, only apparently, turned toward the past, is only a great quest of the future...