Word: parliamen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bottles. All the parliamen tary rows and ministerial switches, says Luethy, have precious little to do with" the governing of France, which is actually one of the world's most stable and conservative societies. The "anonymous, pro saic, tremendously persistent . . . host of official., jurists, clerks and bookkeepers [who have survived] forty kings and nearly as many revolutions and coups "d'ét" administer the enormously centralized state with all the finality of one thousand years' unbroken tradition. These "supreme luminaries who control the state itself, its legislation, its finances and its personal politics, are totally removed from...
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