Word: partout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just about buy two eggs for what a whole chicken would have cost them before the war, were most incensed of all. Suzanne Kerguelen, famed around the Neuilly food market for her sharpness of tongue, spoke for them all when she said: "Ça, va mal chez moi, comme partout" ("Things are tough at home, and tough all over"). Said Jacques Rumpert, a petit bourgeois like millions of others, who runs a typewriter repair shop at Montparnasse: "Que voulez-vous? I worked hard all my life. My aim was to have a house, with a small garden by the Seine...
...shrill French weeklies were completely lacking in subtlety. Says Pertinax: "Candide, Gringoire, and Je Suis Partout might just as well have been gotten out by Goebbels or Starace." They called Roosevelt a Jew and "the century's most conspicuous noodlehead," said "he wants to start a war so as to reestablish Jewish power and deliver the world to Bolshevism, " cried that "at Munich no one has been vanquished except Moscow." In prewar France, concludes Pertinax, "the worst evil wrought by Laval and the rest of them was their allowing German and Italian agents to prostitute the French press...