Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the French got their country back, any paper which had appeared during the occupation was suppressed. Of the big prewar Parisian papers, only a handful (notably the Communist L'Humanité and the Socialist Le Populaire, which were suppressed, and the conservative Le Figaro, which had scuttled itself rather than publish under Nazi rule) are left...
French papers are now of two kinds: the political papers, belonging to the parties, and the journaux d'information, the moneymaking, straight-news sheets. Today, in a city only slightly larger than Chicago, 30 dailies decorate the gay kiosks of the Parisian boulevards. Outstanding among them are the Communist-tinted Ce Soir (circ. 536,000), which concentrates on a robust sports section; Combat (circ. 165,000), generally conceded to be the most stylishly written; the Communist L'Humanité, a pamphleteering paper with a circulation of 470,000; and France-Soir and Paris-Presse (527,000 apiece), which...
...summer solstice, the year's shortest night, seemed short indeed to the diplomats and Parisian socialites passing the illuminated Vendome column. They pressed into Chez Paquin, where a fashion show and ballet celebrated a fateful meeting of the Big Four Foreign Ministers. The night seemed long to newsmen hanging around Suite 116 at the Hotel Meurice, watching the champagne buckets go by toward the room where Secretary Byrnes was entertaining Minister Molotov. In time the buckets came out empty-but no news came with them. Two U.S. Army privates guarded Byrnes's door, and just to be sure...
...dread African Goums marched into the Place de la Concorde, ending the great Resistance Day parade, the unity that the Resistance had brought France seemed to falter. Young hotheads started yelling: "Vive De Gaulle! De Gaulle to power!" A Parisian moblet caught the fever, broke police lines. The flics-recalling fatal rightist riots on the same spot in 1934-laid about blindly with their iron-buttoned capes and arrested a handful of battered demonstrators. Other hotheads besieged Communist headquarters, burned...
...Dedicated to My Fiancee (see cut) was once almost rejected by the Parisian Salon des Independants (which supposedly takes anything) as pornographic art. The home-town girl named Bella, to whom the painting was dedicated, saw nothing shocking about it. As his wife, she later appeared in Double Portrait...