Word: frenchmen
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This comes from centuries of Kings, Popes and Presidents acting out the gap between principles and applied statecraft. Says Guy Sorman of Paris University's Political Studies Institute: "Most Frenchmen believe that political power and foreign policy should be Machiavellian. Today when President Mitterrand is called a Florentine -- meaning a Machiavellian -- it is meant largely as a compliment. What Frenchmen dislike is naivete...
Auque is one of five Frenchmen and eleven other foreigners, including five Americans, now being held in Lebanon. The kidnaping underscored the frustration inherent in any attempt to gain freedom for those in the hands of terrorists. Informed of Auque's capture, Waite appeared stunned and said, "I am very, very sorry to hear that." He vowed, however, to continue his efforts to free kidnap victims...
...Parisian dramatist Jean Cocteau once characterized his fellow Frenchmen as a bunch of Italians in a bad mood. As thumbnail assessments go, that may have been incomplete, but it was not too far off the mark. France last week continued to be seized by a wave of train and other public-service strikes that have disrupted the country for a month. Not only was the typical Frenchman's mood even sourer than usual, but there were numerous signs that French political life, and daily life for that matter, was Italianizing at the edges. The successive crises that have beset...
FRENCH STUDENTS, last week, protested in the streets because of educational reforms instituted by the newly installed conservative government. This proves a well-known rule. No, not that two Frenchmen will have three opinions, but rather that Europeans take their politics much more seriously than Americans do. Nothing bears this rule out more than the Iran-Contra fiasco that is washing up on our shores...
...Frenchmen were driven to Damascus during the night and given clean clothes and a bath at a government facility. They arrived early yesterday at the Foreign Ministry, where they remaied for more than an hour in an anteroom...