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...from French-Algerian "Secret Army" Colonel Antoine Argoud to Communist Leader Jacques Duclos, from a patriotic old Lorraine grocer to a Gandhi-quoting Algerian nationalist. The two film makers, who describe themselves as non-Communist leftists, use all these characters to document their thesis: that liberté, egalité, fraternité are more rhetoric than fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: If They Only Knew | 3/26/1973 | See Source »

...charity affair knew the entertainer's depressing story of debts and eviction, an unpleasant irony that was not lost on Prince Rainier and Princess Grace. Since then the couple has contributed 10,000 francs toward a down payment on a new home for Josephine and her "fraternité universelle" -twelve adopted children of all races and nationalities. The St. Louis-born singer and her brood, after losing their chateau in the south of France, have now moved into a lovely white villa on the coast at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin. "This is the proof that one should never despair," said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 26, 1969 | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

...Fraternité. In Annonay, France, after Postman Louis Gagnaire died, a suitcase full of undelivered tax notices was found in his room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 31, 1958 | 3/31/1958 | See Source »

...penitentiary doctrine which, so far as possible, would keep the prisoner from any contact with the prison." But all this was of no avail. Ex-Warden Billa was sentenced to serve three years at hard labor in a tougher prison, where liberté, égalité and fraternité are only words on official documents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Happy Jail | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

...with the old Marshal who is no longer strong enough to steer. Pierre Laval and Marshal Pétain would stand at salute while buglers sounded taps before Vichy's memorial to the 1,300,000 Frenchmen who died under the banner of liberté, égalité, fraternité in World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: To War Again? | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

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