Word: sacr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Union sacrèe of France's Government and her Communists was symbolized by an anonymous Catholic priest, who closed the four-day session by playing his new composition: a melodic blend of the Marseillaise and the Internationale...
Against this doom Geneviève Tabouis, ex-political pythoness of Paris' Leftist L'Oeuvre, for seven years waged a one-woman struggle, of which these memoirs are a record. To her hopeless struggle she brought a union sacrée of journalistic hysteria and a sense of history that made her acutely aware of all that was most ominous to France in the turmoil of her times. She crammed her daily column on international politics with facts. Sometimes they were staggering and momentarily effective. Sometimes they were merely melodramatic...