Word: tricolorations
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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...
...Charles X, who reigned from 1824 to 1830, was the last of the Bourbon descendants of Louis XIV to rule France. Forced into exile by the revolution of 1830, he relinquished his throne to his grandson, the Comte de Chambord. The proud count, however, refused to recognize the tricolor of constitutional monarchy, and refused to be king unless France adopted the lily-white ensign of the Bourbons. The throne passed to Louis Philippe, descendant of Louis XIII's second son, the Due d'Orleans...
...Louis Salve and his sidekick Gaston Lange, who had been a police inspector before the war, the postwar world looked bright indeed. When they dropped into their favorite cafe in the Rue Sorbier, the patron broke out the tricolor as a sign that Heroes of the Resistance were having a drink in his humble place. Lange and Salve spent a lot of time in the courts, where they were recognized as authorities on who had been a collaborator and who had not: again & again Lange and Salve testified that suspected traitors had in fact served with them in the Resistance...
...tour through the villages not long ago, Nehru was supoosed to unfurl the national tricolor at a public meeting. Something went wrong with the pulley, and the flag would not unfurl. The Prime Minister tugged hard, waxing more & more furious. He summoned the organizer of the meeting, a sheepish-looking yokel. "Can't this village even fly the nation's flag efficiently?" Nehru railed. "I will wait here until I am able to unfurl the flag on that mast." He did, and missed lunch in the process. But at last the pulley was repaired and the flag unfurled...
Outside the Baker Library, where he spoke, the Yugoslav tricolor flew...