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...came out in the sun. Some pre-conquest papers, including Figaro and Ce Soir, were revived. Many great names of the prewar French press were gone, the papers that had either sold out or submitted to the conqueror: Le Matin, Paris Soir, Le Temps, L'Oeuvre, Le Petit Parisien, forcibly taken over by the Germans, may be revived. But by last week's end Paris had no less than 12 flourishing dailies...
...Puccini's opera La Tosca. They found in it an emotional release from their own pent-up bitterness and frustration under police tyranny. And never, they said, had the role been acted so realistically. It never had. The curtain did not rise again. Neither did the Baron. Petit Parisien reported that in the excitement of the performance the villain had actually been stabbed...
...Petit Parisien reported fortnight ago that they had been butchered and sold piecemeal to famished French housewives for 10? a pound...
...Lewd. The day of "fat, puffing State employes" was also past, according to Le Petit Parisien, which announced the introduction of compulsory physical training. To Vichy, after escaping the Germans three times as an artillery captain, went France's famed "Bounding Basque," tennis star Jean Borotra, to become Secretary General of Physical Education. Insisting that he is no politician, only a sportsman, Borotra announced that physical education would henceforth be as important as intellectual education, surmised that his job would be difficult because of the nation's "softness and previous indifference...
...maneuvers would begin August 1, and would be held on the Netherlands frontier. Just as another warning to Poland's allies as well as to Germany that Poland would not accept a "Munich deal" over Danzig, Marshal Smigly-Rydz gave an interview to the Paris newspaper, Le Petit Parisien, in which he pointedly said: "Poland will fight, if necessary alone, to keep its right in the Free City...