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...decisions taken today are only the first step," said Giscard. In fact, they were really a second step. Last January he shook up France's military leadership by naming Yvon Bourges, 53, a tough, energetic and sometimes abrasive Gaullist, as Minister of Defense to replace the ineffectual Jacques Soufflet. General Marcel Bigeard, 59, a paratroop hero and one of France's most decorated soldiers, was named Bourges's deputy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Rescuing the Ramparts of Order | 3/17/1975 | See Source »

...press conference, Servan-Schreiber said that the Cabinet had never discussed the tests: "The military faced the Cabinet with a fait accompli." That proved to be his undoing. Hours later, Defense Minister Jacques Soufflet, a hard-line Gaullist and a chief proponent of testing, issued an ultimatum: Giscard and Chirac would have to choose between him and Servan-Schreiber. They promptly dismissed Servan-Schreiber, the Premier explaining tersely, "The views he expressed this morning are incompatible with the basic principles of our policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: A Frappe for J.J.-S.S. | 6/24/1974 | See Source »

While passengers on the Queen Elizabeth lined the rails before dawn to cheer them off, General Dwight D. Eisenhower and wife Mamie boarded a tender, headed for Cherbourg dockside. At a breakfast reception in the customs shed, the general drank a champagne toast with Cherbourg's Mayor Edmond Soufflet, recalled that his arrival this time had been considerably easier than his Normandy landing more than six years ago, added seriously: "With God's help, and with all of us working together, we can keep peace." The general then boarded a plane for Paris and his new duties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Busy Life | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

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