Word: rouen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gaullists wound up with only 38% of the first-round vote, compared with 46% for the united left.* Though the Gaullists could still emerge from the second round with a majority, it was also possible that they would be forced into a coalition with the centrists, led by Rouen Mayor Jean Lecanuet and Publisher Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, who polled 12.4% last week. Less likely would be the emergence of the first Socialist-Communist majority in France since the 1930s...
...poll, published by France-Soir, gave the So cialist-Communist combine and other leftist parties 47 per cent of the electorate. The Gaullists trailed with 36% (as compared with their 46% popular vote in the 1968 elections); the centrist parties, led by Publisher-Politician Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber and Rouen Mayor Jean Lecanuet, took 14%. By one reckoning, the Gaullists were assured of at least 225 seats, but there were no guarantees that they would pick up the 246 needed for a bare majority...
...works, from Giotto through the Impressionists to Morris Louis, the exhibit could have spoken about the artists' use of light or of plastic form. El Greco's eerie lighting in View of Toledo compared to Tiepolo's ethereal scene of St. Thecla Praying or compared to Monet's Rouen Cathedral could have emphasized the different handlings of light. A trio of Sassetta (the be-beginnings of perspective), Cezanne his constructive view of nature), and Joseph Stella's Coney Island (an engineering of color) could have stated a development in the ordering of nature or of form...
...government's worst nightmares. But they were bad enough to litter the Latin Quarter and Saint-Germain areas of Paris with bricks, glass, smoldering autos and wrecked shops. At the same time, the unrest spread to Marseille, where leftist students, demonstrating at a factory, battled police. In Rouen, four girl students were injured when an explosion shook one of the university dormitories...