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Word: trottoir (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...majority speaks for active resistance groups. The spokesman for resistance is a member called René Ferrière (who for security reasons cannot be photographed or described). Ferrière calls himself "le français du trottoir"-the Frenchman in the street. When he arrived in Algiers, he was as unaware as most Frenchmen of the confusion there. He had expected much: "After two days," he said, "I was completely bewildered, cried all night and intended to return to France the next day." He has stayed long enough to see the leading men of Vichy cleaned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Time for Decision | 1/10/1944 | See Source »

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