Word: sportif
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Social Customs. In the evening, a German Legionnaire stands at attention saluting the French tricolor as it flutters from a tall flagstaff. Another German Legionnaire hauls it down. It might be for the last time. But in the Cercle Sportif, the club by the river bank, the French continue to act as they have always done. The Chinese servant is still fairly polite, calls people Honorable or Venerable One as he shuffles around with bottles of cognac and Perrier water...