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...they share some compelling political bonds. Thus, when Charles de Gaulle visited Rumania last week, he received a hero's welcome -even while he was being reviled back home by students in the streets of Paris. Everywhere he went, thousands of flag-waving Rumanians turned out to shout "Vive la France - De Gaulle!", turning his five-day stay into an impressive demonstration of genuine pro-French feeling. Besides, President Nicolae Ceausescu 50, is an ardent admirer of De Gaulle and his independent ways, and has used De Gaulle's single-minded nationalism as a model and inspiration...
...Vive la Difference
...ambition was to forge national unity in a country that has never been united, and at his retirement, this ambition has been frustrated. He saw in the Centennial Year of 1967 a chance to begin a new era in French-English relations. Then General de Gaulle raised the cry "Vive le Quebec libre!" in Montreal, and it was clear once again that the ancient conflict cannot be wished away...
...balm in her tragic years. In 1848, she buried Branwell; soon after, both Emily and Anne died of consumption. Charlotte fell in love with Arthur Bell Nicholls, the Haworth curate. Her father begged her not to marry because he feared she was too small and frail to sur vive pregnancy. He was right. After a few months of marriage in which she was amazed at her own happiness, Charlotte died of tuberculosis and complications of pregnancy. She was 39. The curse on the Brontes was more implacable than any Charlotte's imagination could devise...
...singing the Marseillaise and did not seem displeased when hecklers booed the Canadian national anthem. At Montreal's city hall, he responded before a large, excited audience: "I find myself in an atmosphere the same as that of the liberation of Paris." A few moments later, he shouted "Vive le Quebec libre," the notorious cry of Quebec separatists...