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...People broke police barriers, crying "Serrez-moi la main!" (Let me shake your hand). One gouty old woman was perched atop a stepladder which her equally gouty old husband kept from toppling over. "Now she steps out of the car, like a queen," the woman reported. "And the Duke, quel beau gosse!" (what a handsome youngster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Princess Zezette | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

...What is that?" London's man-in-the-street (and many an intellectual) has never heard of Lie. In Paris, an unusually well-informed headwaiter exclaimed: "Ah out, isn't he that Swede who presides over U.N., makes $20,000 a year and pays no income tax? Quel veinard (what a lucky guy), I'd like to be tax-exempt myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Immigrant to What? | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

...what a rogue and peasant slave am I! (Oh! Quel rustre je suis! Quel esclave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Hamlet in Paris | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

...Quel malheur . . . another one," sighed Monsieur René Besniers. A jeep had just crashed into the window of his Paris pharmacy. Since Druggist Besniers opened his shop at the teeming corner of rue Dunkerque and rue du Faubourg Poissonière 36 years ago, 108 different vehicles have hurtled into his store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: ... Plus C'est la M | 2/25/1946 | See Source »

With horror gourmets looked forward to the day when, rolling their tongues over unfermented grape juice, they would find themselves saying: "Ah! vintage of '46! Quel bouquet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ten-Year Plan? | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

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