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...Rouge et Noir. The edge of Stendhal's satire is dulled by sentiment, but all the same his great novel makes a good movie; with Gerard Philipe, Danielle Darrieux, Antonella Lualdi (TIME...
...Rouge et Noir. The edge of Stendhal's satire is dulled by sentiment, but all the same his great novel makes a good movie; with Géerard Philipe, Danielle Darrieux, Antonella Lualdi (TIME...
...Rouge et Noir. The edge of Stendhal's satire is dulled by sentiment, but all the same his great novel makes a good movie; with Gérard Philipe, Danielle Darrieux, Antonella Lualdi (TIME...
...When Suzanne, at 18, gave birth to Maurice, the man most generally assumed to be the father was a no-account Sunday painter and alcoholic named Boissy whom Suzanne had met at the revels held at Montmartre's Chat Noir café. Suzanne herself was never very specific-and perhaps could not be. But last week Maurice's widow, Lucie Valore Utrillo, decided to erase the doubt about daddy. After a festive municipal lunch in her honor at Limoges, where Lucie was pushing her recently published book, Maurice Utrillo, My Husband, she announced that Utrillo's real...
...leaflets flooded the city urging Frenchmen to take up arms in protest against the Café Gonin bombing and Grandval's "soft" policy. In groups of two and three hundred, European vigilantes stormed through the city, pillaging and burning native shops, overturning buses. Most vengeful were the Pied Noir (Black Foot), half-breeds of mixed Italian, Spanish and Moroccan blood and Morocco's equivalent of the South's "poor white," who hate the native Moroccans with a fury based on economic insecurity. In the heart of the city, rioters lynched one Moroccan, shot down two others with...