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...title of the film is an allusion to Parisian life during the time of the Nazi occupation, the time in which Truffaut's story is set. This was a time of dramatic contradiction in Paris, for despite the air raid warnings and the sudden imposition of the Nazi superstructure, some normal life continued to exist. It was, paradoxically, a time of artistic flowering in France--many theaters flourished, and Les Enfants du Paradis was being filmed. Camus and the like were writing for the newspapers and carrying on the Resistance. There was an intellectual and social defiance which the Nazis...
...curiosity, were in a sense mimicking the colonial pattern of expansion and appropriation. They were becoming tourists in other ethnic realities, seizing on the distant world and its exotic contents as raw material. Aries in 1888, the year Van Gogh began work there, was more foreign to a Parisian than Tunis is today...
Giscard has acted adroitly to increase that control. Besides appointing close associates to head the broadcast networks, he has helped Political Ally Robert Hersant get government-facilitated loans to acquire control of three Parisian newspapers, France-Soir, Le Figaro and L 'Aurore. Their combined circulation of 1.06 million makes "Citizen Hersant" the most important press magnate in France. Commercial publish must still depend on the state-run advertising agency Havas to help them contract for major advertising. Moreover, under Giscard, a bewildering catalogue of government subsidies for such publishing costs as paper, telephone and telex communications has drawn financially...
...Come quickly. I've just killed my wife ." The scene, and the supplicant huddled against the chill of a Parisian dawn last week as he pounded on a colleague's door were equally bizarre. Close by the doorway towered the stone walls of the 186-year-old Ecole Normale Superieure, an elite graduate school for the best and the brightest students of France. The agitated man in robe and pajamas banging at the door with his dire tidings was no less prestigious: Louis Althusser, 62, among the diminishing survivors of the country's great postwar intellectual...
Althusser's intellectual credentials made the murder momentous news in France. As if the crime were another scholarly event, some Parisian newspapers, and the academic circles in which Althusser had moved, treated it with the same sort of erudition and emotion they had once directed toward his books and articles. The Communist newspaper L'Humanité's report reads like an obituary not so much for the murdered Mme. Althusser as for "our comrade," the Algerian-born, Catholic-reared philosopher who had switched from conservatism to Communism after five years as a German P.O.W. in World...