Word: quartier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once everybody notices an amazing change in the bum's behavior. He gives up drinking, rises betimes, bustles about on mysterious errands. The quartier is delighted. The tavernkeeper's pretty daughter (Dany Carrel) invites the reconstructed wreck to a dance, and he begins to daydream about romance, riches, monograms on his shirts. And what is responsible for the change? A small thing, says Director Clair. The good-for-nothing has discovered that he is good for something-if only to hide a criminal from the police. As he happily explains to his reluctant accomplice (Georges Brassens): "At last...
...their morning newspapers the coffee drinkers on the boulevards read how police inspectors, making the rounds of Paris' Quartier Jean-Jaurès, had been jumped by four armed Algerians. Since the war began, gunfights between Algerians have been an everyday event in France proper (120 killed, 741 wounded this year), but this was a planned attack on Frenchmen in Paris. The worst fears of the Paris police were being realized: Algeria's nationalists had decided to bring their war to the mainland, not for military gains but for the counterterrorism that they calculated it would provoke...
Under the Citadel. When the marines were first splashing ashore at Port-au-Prince in 1915, Paul Eugene Magloire had just turned eight years old. His birthplace was Quartier-Morin, a few miles southeast of Cap-Haitien. His father was Eugene Magloire, a peasant so energetic that he rose to be one of the many generals then running Haiti's army. The general was killed in a shooting accident in 1908, and the infant Paul was brought up by two brothers in Cap-Haitien. The Brothers of Christian Instruction gave him a Catholic education, stressing French and Latin, while...