Word: terrorisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the Nazi-controlled Paris press allowed to leak out of the city. But the Cri du Peuple was permitted to say that conditions suggested open warfare. The Vichy press admitted: "We can expect to see street incidents multiply." With the French it had obviously become a question of terror for terror...
While totalitarian terror raged in Paris (see above), in Vichy last week the sculptors of French Fascism carved away at their totalitarian work, pausing only to throttle those critics they could get their hands...
...present, which their very flight would create." The frightened King tried to flee to Germany. The frightened Revolution imprisoned him, and "without an army, without an administration, without police, without laws, without a Treasury . . . was forced to make war on three frontiers." Terrified next by its own Terror, the Revolution gave itself up to Napoleon-a form of 19th-Century appeasement. But Napoleon too was a product of fear...
Talleyrand. The man who ended the terror, says Ferrero, was Talleyrand. His life reflected the chaos of the time. An unwilling youth, he had been forced into the Church. He retaliated by practising such public debauchery that when his dying father begged Louis XVI to give Talleyrand a bishopric, his mother begged the King "not to disgrace the Church with such a bishop." One month after becoming bishop of Autun, Talleyrand left the Church, joined the Revolution, initiated a bill to strip the Church of all its property in France. Says Ferrero: "The rebellious prisoner had taken advantage...
Last week, to the great, grim tragedy of France was added the Nazi Terror. With superb irony, its setting was Paris' shoddy, working-class XIe Arrondissement (eleventh ward), once the cradle, now the abattoir of French Republicanism. France was stirring against the Germans and the Germans had no intention of letting the stir progress to an upheaval...