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Legendary Grandfather. In 1815 Europeans began penetrating the thick forests of Guinea, which was to give its name to a coin of purest gold, a kind of grass, and a species of hen. Among them was a young Frenchman named René Caillé, who, dressed as an Arab, talked of his captivity by the Egyptians, was accepted as a Moslem and was able to make his famed journey safely to Timbuktu. After him other Frenchmen came, and eventually, by the "rules of the game,"*laid down by the Berlin Conference of 1884-85 for spreading civilization throughout darkest Africa...
...back last week on the seven months between the demise of the Fourth Republic and the final emergence of De Gaulle's Fifth Republic, Frenchmen could see much undone, but also much under way. And one thing deserved a cheer. "For the first time in our history," said René Coty in his farewell speech, "a revolution, a necessary and constructive revolution, has been carried out in a spirit of calm and respect for the laws...
...John Gielgud. French embassy parties, while never very big, are among the most enjoyable, are distinguished by the beauty of Ambassador Hervé Alphand's second wife (he was divorced, remarried last summer) and the ambassador's after-dinner impersonations of Winston Churchill and France's René Coty. ("If I had my choice between Maurice Chevalier and Alphand," says an admirer, "I'd take Alphand...
...France's Presidents, few have been more popular than the last President of the Fourth Republic, outgoing René Coty, who began moving his things out of the palace after his wife died in 1955, will need only a small truck to take away the rest of his books. Then Charles de Gaulle will begin his seven-year rule...
...themselves in head-on collision with the most widely accepted tenets of many great philosophers-Plato, Descartes, Kant, Spinoza and Hegel. Their particular enemy is Hegel, for his insistence that all reality can be encompassed in a rational structure. It was this that inspired the melancholy Dane, Sören Kierkegaard (1813-55), to raise the flag of philosophic revolt against all purely rationalist and positivist systems, and to declare that reality and truth are within man himself and his actions, whether they be rational or no. Kierkegaard argued that the central, all-important fact about man is the simplest...