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...unsympathetic courtroom, Rene Floriot, one of the best and most expensive of Parisian criminal lawyers, delivered a marathon defense oration that ended with "Mais non, all I am trying to say is that you cannot find a man guilty on this kind of evidence." Swiss newspapers fumed at French journalists who suggested that Jaccoud was being railroaded because he had blemished the reputation of conservative, Calvinist Geneva. Students angrily burned copies of Paris-Match on a city square...
Author Mahyére, daughter of a strict Geneva pastor, in most respects evidently modeled her heroine after herself. Sylvie is a Parisian schoolgirl, a Lesbian who tries to make it on pills and "oceans of alcohol." She has been turned out of two schools, the second time from a convent school for writing a love letter to a teacher. Sylvie has long since decided that she ought to be dead, but death frightens her. Yet to live, "one has to choose between three houses where one is shut up; the asylum, the convent and the brothel." In her view...
...help our country," cracked one cynical Parisian. "Now we have two saviors." Obviously, Pinay was aware that De Gaulle's term as President has six more years to run. But by forcing a break, and by posing it as a question of preserving France's monetary and economic stability, Pinay was setting himself up as the focal point of future conservative opposition to De Gaulle. One of the four remaining Independents in the Cabinet, Secretary of State for Economic Affairs Max Fléchet, resigned later in the week...
...movie Rififi, long ago decided that "the truest and most exciting tempo of all might be the human heart." He borrowed a stethoscope, listened to some 50 hearts before he heard just the cardiac sound he wanted: it was thumping in the chest of a 21-year-old Parisian sales girl and model named Nicole Guillenette. What Philippe-Gérard liked about Nicole, he says, is that her heart turned over at a remarkably steady 58 beats to the minute (ideal, in his judgment, for rock 'n' roll). Moreover, it could be tuned up to an equally...
This kind of past double relationship might explain why Leftist Mitterrand and avowed Rightist Pesquet got together again. But for what purpose? Neither man's explanation entirely satisfied. Without offering any proof, Parisian newsmen contrived a more devious explanation: that Leftist Mitterrand and Rightist Pesquet. equally eager to discredit the regime of Gaullist Premier Michel Debre, could have collaborated in the mutual hope of toppling Debre and with the common intention of doublecrossing each other after the deed was done...