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...revoir, mon général. Au revoir, mes camarades. Vive la France!" Then De Castries ordered artillery fire from Isabelle against his own command post...
Some in the crowd shouted "Vive De Gaulle!" and "De Gaulle to power!" But many, on this sunshiny day, simply murmured: "How he has aged!" and continued their Sunday stroll...
Outside, in the streets of Paris, the affair did not end so smoothly. At week's end, bands of right-wing students, veterans, followers of General de Gaulle and monarchists began parading and shouting, "Vive Juin!" Laniel and Pleven went to a ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe for the fallen soldiers of Dienbienphu...
...with an exemplary family. "He must be a good enough shot to avoid any diplomatic incidents when he takes visiting royalty out hunting," one wag specified, "and he shouldn't be named Leroy. The crowds can't very well shout what sounds like 'Vive le roi!' as he goes by." He should also be gregarious: "We can't have a bear who likes to lock himself up in his toilet alone and smoke his pipe...
...characteristic Gallic compromise-an escalator with a built-in landing. If the cost of living jumps more than 5%, the government would have one month to try to bring it down, before being forced to raise wages. On a procedural question, Faure won by 17 votes. But nobody cried Vive l'Aust...