Word: austerlitz
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...France, by D. W. Brogan. Like an aging actress. France has lived on the memories of past applause, at Versailles with the Sun King, at Austerlitz with Napoleon, in the Age of Reason with Voltaire. As distinguished Historian Brogan sees it, Charles de Gaulle is gradually teaching his people the importance of living in the 20th century. For the first time, France is borrowing culture: existential philosophy from Germany, film making in the laconic U.S. documentary style. The transitional ferment will continue, predicts Brogan, as France has more youngsters than oldsters for the first time in a century. Most striking...