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...Florentin. Ironically enough, it was De Gaulle who set the rules for France's first direct presidential election since 1848-and it was he who was ambushed by them. "The stupidest thing of my life," he reportedly muttered afterward. The rule of 50% -or-a-runoff gave everybody, including Gaullist voters, a free and harmless chance to dissent. They could demonstrate distaste for his haughty ways and still set things straight at the runoff. It was a free swing at the genera], and swing they...
...final choice is now between De Gaulle and Mitterrand, whom Frenchmen call "le beau Francois" for his looks, "le Florentin" for his political suppleness. One of eight children of a Cognac railroad clerk, Mitterrand climbed to prominence through sheer brilliance and an inborn political knack for being all things to all people. Though his vest-pocket party, the left-of-center Democratic Socialist Union of the Resistance, has never amounted to much, his adaptability shoehorned him into no fewer than eleven revolving coalition Cabinets of the Fourth Republic. For at least two of his Cabinet stints, Mitterrand is given high...
That night Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain spent aboard his train. Next morning, under sealed orders, the train crossed the demarkation line at Moulins. Eighty miles southeast of Paris it was shunted off on a branch line near the town of St.-Florentin, where another special train waited. In that train, his Falstaffian sides swaddled in uniform, sat Hermann Wilhelm Göing. Marshal Pétain had been told to wear civilian clothes...
...much Marshal Pétain conceded in his meeting at St.-Florentin did not matter particularly. From many places last week came evidence that Vichyfrance was Hitler's. In Washington, General Robert Jean Claude Roger Odic, until recently commander of the French Air Force in North Africa, joined the Free French forces of General Charles de Gaulle...
...week, by Representative Stephen G. Porter of Pennsylvania, Chairman of the Foreign (Diplomatic and Consular) Service Buildings Commission. Said he: "An office building for our Embassy and Consulate will be erected. . . . Such a building as the Administration now has in mind would correspond with the architecture of the Hotel Florentin, the present residence of Baron Edouard de Rothschild, at the corner of the Rue de Rivoli and the Rue St. Florentin, and would balance the two larger structures of the Ministry of Marine and the Hotel Crillon, in accordance with the original plan of Jacques Gabriel...