Word: regardez
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...escaped trial by fire and the horror of destruction, is unexpectedly menaced by new destruction." The letter was signed by a group of intellectuals and painters, including Jean Giraudoux, Paul Valery, Paul Morand, Jean Cocteau, Andre Derain. The man in the street, passing the wreckers at work, simply muttered: "Regardez-moi ces assassins," and looked, as he seldom looked in the years of freedom, at the soaring crags of the Eiffel Tower, which the Nazis had threatened to tear down for the sake of its steel...