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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fréjus (pop. 14,000), which likes to call itself "the Pompeii of Provence," is rich in Roman ruins and history. Founded by Julius Caesar in 49 B.C., Fréjus helped build the fleet Roman galleys that defeated Antony and Cleopatra in the battle of Actium in 31...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Valley of Death | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

"Terrible Cracking." At 6 one evening last week, André Ferraud, the dam watchman, decided to open the safety sluices a little, although shortly before, a group of engineers had vetoed such a precaution for fear the overflow might damage the foundations of a new superhighway under construction from Fr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Valley of Death | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

It was daylight before any organized rescue work could get under way, as helicopter crews from the French carrier La Fayette (once the U.S. carrier Langley) joined gendarmes, soldiers and dazed survivors in searching for the dead and missing. It was not easy work: from the broken stump of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Valley of Death | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

Six nights a week, shapely, 36-year-old Lydia Lova takes her third-from-the-left place in Paris' famed Folies-Bergère chorus line, prances onstage dressed in not much more than a few sequins, a plume, and her smile. Unknown to most Folies patrons, Lydia Lova...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: La Plume de la Résistance | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

All her life Lydia wanted to dance. Even before her family moved to France from Poland when she was seven, she was already attending the Warsaw Opera Ballet school. Ten years later when the Nazis overran France, Lydia's father Wladimir became a Resistance chief for the French underground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: La Plume de la Résistance | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

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