Word: soir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...France Pertinax will write thrice weekly for Pierre Lazareff's France-Soir-never again, he says, will he write daily, as he did for 21 of his 32 years on the Echo de Paris. But for a sexagenarian, grey, thick-set Pertinax will be busy: he will also edit the weekly L'Europe Nouvelle, as he did after he split with Echo in 1938 over its appeasement policies. He intends to update his best-selling U.S. book, Gravediggers of France (Pétain, Gamelin, Reynaud, Daladier). Then at last it can be published, perhaps, in the country where...
...were nearly mad with joy. Here were the men of all nations whom Hitler's agents had picked out as prime opponents of Naziism; here were the very earliest Hitler haters. Here were German social democrats, Spanish survivors of the Spanish Civil War, a correspondent for the Paris Soir, who cried so hard I could not get his name...
...from everywhere - even the telephone. By dialing INF-1, Parisians could hear a recorded summary of world and local news, brought up to date every hour. Underground news papers which had hidden in cellars and garrets came out in the sun. Some pre-conquest papers, including Figaro and Ce Soir, were revived. Many great names of the prewar French press were gone, the papers that had either sold out or submitted to the conqueror: Le Matin, Paris Soir, Le Temps, L'Oeuvre, Le Petit Parisien, forcibly taken over by the Germans, may be revived. But by last week...
Flashes of Light, Sound of Guns. We looked at copies of L'Humanite, the old-time Communist newspaper, now published again in its old building, and of Ce Soir. We lent a blanket to a woman of the Resistance who was spending her last night in four years away from Paris on the back seat of a small car. Then as darkness fell we spread our bedrolls beside the road to Paris and lay there under the starry sky and the low moon. From beneath the Big Dipper came occasional flashes of light. Artillery sounded in the distance...
...rented the house on rue Le Sueur as a "laboratory." Police said that Petiot had lived a delinquent childhood (letter stealing, perversion), had once been fined for improper dealing in narcotics. They whispered that his rue Caumartin office was well-known among women of the Paris demimonde. In Paris Soir a Madame Parisinot told how she had recently called on Dr. Petiot for treatment of a swollen wrist. Like the Bluebeard of the fairy tale (see cut), the Bluebeard of the rue Le Sueur had a magnetic eye. But otherwise, with his lime-stained hands and rough work clothes...