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TIME errs in stating that "Mademoiselle" from Armentières was an invention . . . The little French girl who slapped a general's face and thus inspired the famous war song was as virtuous as she was pretty. She was employed at a café early in World War I when Armentières was a resting place for troops . . . Entertainment was organized by a London music-hall actor, "Red" Rowland, and the Canadian songwriter Lieut. Gitz-Rice...
...place names of Flemish towns ring like bugles. They tell of bloody and costly battles in wars over the centuries: Courtrai, Passendale, Ypres ("Wipers" to the Tommy of World War I), and Armentiéres (whose "Mademoiselle" was invented to wipe out the memory of grimmer realities). In World War II, the tragedy and heroism of Dunkirk were played out on a Flemish beach...
...next decade the Donald Merretts, or the Ronald Chesneys as they liked to call themselves, lived high, wide & handsome, spending most of their time touring the Mediterranean in a luxury yacht, the Armentières. They were often joined in their cruising by Mrs. Chesney's mother, who called herself "Lady" Mary Menzies. When Donald's fondness for gay company and Isobel's fondness for gin at last drove them apart in 1937, Lady Mary and her daughter went back to London, bought a large house in Ealing, and opened a boardinghouse for genteel elderly ladies...
...meeting Galsworthy: "So pure, so high-minded . . . that I wanted to shout for the Folies Bergères...
...seven jurors rather than the accused, and attempts to show how their different personalities and problems influence their verdicts-e.g. a farmer (Marcel Pérés) who believes his wife is betraying him finds the defendant guilty, while a café waiter (Raymond Bussières) who is in love finds her not guilty...