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When it comes to crime, Frenchmen take a back seat to no one-except in kidnaping, which French criminals apparently rate a U.S. specialty. The French do not even have a name for it, use the U.S. word, pronounced keednaping. But last week le crime américain was on every Parisian tongue. Little Eric Peugeot, an heir to one of France's greatest industrial (autos, appliances, heavy machinery) fortunes, was stolen in broad daylight and held for $100,000 ransom...
...France, Premier Faure told the people that at Geneva there were not "four big ones, but two colossi," and some French politicians became newly apprehensive that the two colossi might settle Europe's fate through "le dialogue russo-ameéricain" without reference to France. There was also the possibility that the fate of Germany might be decided bilaterally between Adenauer and the Russians. Result: a curious revival of French enthusiasm for "la relance européenne," or the relaunching of the idea of Europe. In Faure's Cabinet last week, Robert Schuman, father of Europe...
...Detroiter blinked at the big red lettering on the card: EN CAS D'ACCIDENT. After a blank for his name & address: Citoyen américain, je désire être transporté d'urgence à I'hôpital américain de Paris. The visitor filled in his name and hotel address, tucked the card into his wallet, and stepped briskly out into the warm, exciting Paris night to take his chances with wine, women and the world's wildest motorists. The Detroiter, and thousands like him, felt a bit more secure just...
Charles Boyer, back in French country life, was passing his time playing petanque (bowling) and drinking pale pastis (an absinthe imitation). One day, weary-eyed Marcel Pagnol came over for cocktails and referred to Boyer as "I'Américain." Charles didn't like Marcel's tone of voice. He socked him and they had it out right there, with screams from the girls. But it all ended in a reconciliation scene: the rivals embraced and sat down together to a wonderful bouillabaisse...
Pierrot's latest escape, made in the company of his faithful lieutenant René Mâle (known as René l'Américain) and a third man, was accomplished by the rather humdrum device of enticing a guard near enough to steal his gun, and marching with it out to the street...