European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 09, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse Maurice Chevaliers 20 years to moire the top. Jean Paul Belmondo right new film Breed. By Bernard Kaplan Nana staff writer Young worker Are pressing up from rank in French Industry. French we to believe that a Man did t come into hit own before 60. Tie newest path to Quick riches Infranco ups to publishing Mara lines for to fun it firs. A year ago. They did Tex Lut since then a round dozen have in Peim a and it new one need to hit he Evi by week. All in have ti1ls like a to huh i. A is tint nol it it uniting president churl a d 1gaulle s it the wily Mamlic Isih a f p in a plur into tin1 French language in Flo and trl Vuil Enouch n itself the idol Twat pull Shank Boom reflects a pin Norrus Nonhof the dih Piki Sinel Fichani c. The oldest Sojit Onn Mai Avo Jire in Europe tins Al mos Vern Likht become the seeking a clue to Tiff Huton Sjur revival of it Elf conf once indeed what Home critics would describe a coi Kim is in France need perhaps go no father them this single fact. It is a decisive element in the psychological climate that has a tier de i tulle and null Lam practical posse Bali tie it last. Fifteen years ago de Gaulle foiled dismally. Today. Ai least in Krone he a succeeded. France was ill an old country 15 years ago. Today it is Young. Statistics have Seldom told so graphic Astory. After More than a Century of Stag nation France s birth Rote is the Huff Hettin Western Europe. The population in reuse o the past nine years nearly 5.000,000wan As much As the increase in the entire Century Between 1861 and 1w51.with lie present population sin my ins it More than 46,500,000 not including 70o.1kh1 algerian repatriate the Long legendary proof pvt of "50,000,000 frenchmen an inthe Kong. Is finally within reach. Hut tint really int tors if thai the Nuil in births after so Long a period of Stii Lillie is producing an exceptionally Young pop Ulm Tjon. One Quarter of the French not Hoitin under 25 years of age. The secondly school population next autumn will in slunk Gigantic leap bound from Hlf n million children to 800.1100. In few other countries could thin a com graphic rejuvenation have stirred such dramatic and immediate results. Be Ore the War and indeed until a few years ago the world s image of the French was at a superannuated crusty nation afflicted with the social diseases of old Obi Ike pile in a caution and fear. The French had largely the same image of themselves. Within most of them a the suspicion they were a dying race. Experts looking for an explanation of Why. Suddenly in the late 1940. French couples again started having Large turn Hies find no single satisfactory answer. Postwar baby Bonus Law have of course been vital but probably Don t Tell the whole tale. Perhaps the Root of change Lay. As with so Many other matters. In the War itself when for nearly ill years some 2,000.000 frenchmen were held a pos and deportees in Germany and separate from their womenfolk. Whatever the reasons the rage of youth has provoked consequences in nearly every has of French life. A nation that was accustomed to placing its Stock to age and maturity uni swung with a vengeance to youth and zest. The French used to say a Man did t come into hit own until he was at least 60. So they could think inthe Days when there was Little pressure from the Junior ranks below. Today the majority of leading executives industrialists scientists and other 12 relic Fri in their 40s and Early 50i. A like Pierre Dreyfus who runs the Tatj it Famili Auto Complex and has for nearly ii Iii Iudici. Is now n Little Over the 50-Yeaf Murk Imi he himself Points out a am onus Iii ii in old Man around in ibis Nimox Phore of youth serving its of. I is. In Turnly an Ana molar hut a i shrewdly sensitive to the cur rats. Us Nihim to May not be the most often Jimmilu l in euro in but it is the. Youn. Nino of his 23 ministers Are 43 or less most of the others Are under 80rv a Howell no hesitation in appoint i a n Tai Yrne old minister of Flea need though Irondi tonally the finance port Folio is entrusted to a cautionary Fruy Hoard who can he counted on not to Getret Kli with the Rentiers funds. Do thus has managed to it re Mur Kahli i Pireu to dress up his regime in the trip Panga of youth. It is a far trickier operation for him than for 4b y car old pros Dent of the United states his Sitt Cess has been at least worthy of comparison. The gaullist if not de Gaull himself Khar with the new frontiers Man the image of pubescent virility that the Public on both sides of the Ocean a come to re pct but it in t Only in the Halls of govern ment and Industry that Lithe Young men und women who seem to differ from prs Rod inn Kynor Utonn even in their physical have taken the Telfia. French come to pro tempt the store for the Young itt a tart is a clue. All frenchmen now i Lush fit tier Are remarkably Young or Wanton pretend no. Tiik Fri my him Lindu to s new wave has in in unc manifestation of the i Nur Iii a Tiki Utt. So has the flowering Liik a tits Tidlun designers in their mid Iwonia a who Hnyp Given that a of Krench Trade a entirely new Outlook i i i Tourny or a couple of years. Literature4 Kran Cuite Sogan and a spate of to in Uduc Muldor France liked to grow gradually Lucush turd to lie entertainers and jes Ern. It Tomk Maurice Chevalier 90 years the attain in room. The biggest thins rent i coing Here a pair of pop a Neil Johnny Hall Day Persau Saxon monikers Are virtually a Prerau Lovlie to Burress her these Days to seems to Caru that de Gaulle does tit and Francoise Hardy Are respect rear 19 and in years old nor Are their a my rest by any Means limited to fellow Tenert Folgera. The youth cult is. Need it be said pre Ducong us absurdities. But the my Del a id parents puffing hard to keep abreast of their offspring Aren t contemporary phenomenon Peculiar to France. It it How Ever undeniable that much of the Subtle old flavor of French life distilled by maturity is disappearing. A nation that seemed to be trailing Oft into senility Only a few Yean to he drastically reversed course. The novel vigor the French have begun to feel it their Bones has already at rred effect the rest of the world finds disconcerting. ,1 the France of the future will undoubtedly be a different country a different be pie rom that of the put Century. But. Whatever the immediate difficult Thyot Annot help on balance but be m to our advantage m to theirs the stars and stripes
