Word: petit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Speeding through the Paris suburb of Petit-Clamart early one evening in August 1962, the French President's black Citroën ran into a barrage of submachine-gun fire. The colonel riding next to the chauffeur yelled to his father-in-law in the back seat: "Father, get down!" The tall, imperial figure budged not an inch. Again the distraught colonel pleaded: "I beg you, Father, get down." This time the President leaned slightly forward. A split second later, a stream of bullets ripped through the limousine. When the firing stopped, Charles de Gaulle flicked fragments...
MICHAEL D. PETIT...
Recent Finds. From this official attitude has come what must arguably be the most beautiful exhibition Europe has yet seen in the '70s: "Treasures of Chinese Art," a loan show of some 400 recent finds from the People's Republic, on view at the Petit Palais in Paris through the summer. Later it will travel to London and early next year to Toronto. It is the fruit of almost ten years' negotiation between the Chinese and French governments, begun by ex-Culture Minister André Malraux and finished in detail by a group of orientalists headed...
...This feat, if Mitterrand brings it off, will bear witness to his tenacity, shrewdness and gift for political compromise. Mitterrand has had to painstakingly rebuild the flagging Socialist Party, which has long been threatened by minute doctrinal squabbles as well as by Gaullist and Communist inroads upon its petit bourgeois constituency. Most French socialist leaders have traditionally refused to collaborate with the Communists on ideological grounds. Mitterrand's tactic, since he took over as leader of a regrouped Socialist Party in 1971, has been to fashion a united front with them. He calculates that France's Communist Party...
...MYTHS DISCUSSED here are myths of bourgeois culture, and particularly of petit-bourgeois popular culture. Myth, for Barthes, is "true" in the sense that it expresses a real intention or desire, but always distorts it in an effort to convert the intentional into natural fact. Barthes finds several specific processes by which this distortion is accomplished: "The Writer on Holiday," for instance, describes how the romantic image of the writer as "super-human" is given viability by "inoculating" it with a bit of reality--the writer taking a vacation like other mortals. Or, in "The Brain of Einstein," Barthes sees...