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Speaking for herself and the Chamber's five other Communists, Deputy Rie Lips said: "One can't help wondering why that which is considered quite common in other countries is made difficult here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Burning of Bodies | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

...application is processed through a dozen separate departments before reaching Crédit Foncier, the nationalized credit institution which may help them finance their project. Permission granted, the French couple then has to deal with the guild-conscious French architect and his seven fat handbooks entitled La Série Centrale des Architectes, which lay down exactly what may be done about building a house, in terms suitable for the age of Charlemagne. After the architect comes the French builder, a race apart from all others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Sheltering Sky | 1/10/1955 | See Source »

...Idea. Papa Diderot objected to his son's studies, but let him be until he learned that Denis planned to marry. He then had the young lover imprisoned in a monastery with a lettre de cachet. But Denis escaped, dashed after his chérie, married her and almost immediately stopped loving her. There followed a succession of mistresses. The first was expensive and forced him to write his early books about philosophy to provide her with pocket money. The second was Sophie, Diderot's great love. "Ah," he rhapsodized, "what a woman! How tender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Reason's Playboy | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

...Senegalese professional grinned, and capered into a happy jig: "Au revoir chérie, la guerre est finie!" A French paratrooper sipped his Pernod: "In France they are happy tonight. I too am glad that no more will be killed-but there is nothing for us here to be proud of." And in Hanoi's sandbagged Citadelle, where once he had wept at the fall of Dienbienphu, General Cogny put his career on the line. "The free world has not lived up to its responsibilities," said Cogny. "There have been too many deaths for too few results, too many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: The Anguished Peace | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

Married. Martine Carol, 29, whose bosomy pictures have made her the hottest film property in France (Caroline Chérie); and Christian-Jaque (real name: Christian Maudet), 41, her director; both for the second time; in Grasse, France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 26, 1954 | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

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