TITLE: Realites magazine
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ISSUE DATE: JANUARY 1958; Number 86
CONDITION: LARGE magazine, Approx 10oe" X 13oe". COMPLETE and in clean, VERY GOOD condition. (See photo)

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COVER: France's Economy shifts gears: A study in post war prosperity. The greatness of Cezanne. Inside France's scotland yard.

THIS MONTH'S COVER: The ghost- like flying saucers which look so futuristic on the front of this magazine are in fact not futuristic at all. They are the essential working parts from the new Renault Trarisfluide gearbox, as used in France's first car to dispense with the gear- lever. This technical innovation was introduced at last autumn's Paris Motor Show, and launched with a brilliant publicity campaign both the mechanical skill involved in the invention and the way in which it has been sold to the French public symbolize the new spirit in French industry. An article on page 20 examines this new dynamism and shows that, despite monetary and political difficulties, the French economy has never been so strong nor so forward-looking as it is today.

NEWS FROM PARIS:
Under the Paris Rooftops: Paule de Beaumont's monthly diary: In the grip of the grippe-Art not profits-The wearing of the green-"Country bog"-Martyrdum and memories.
Painter of the Month: Jean Marzelle.By Roy McMullen.
Book of the Month: Wining and Dining: A new directory of French cuisine, Alexander Watt's Paris Bistro Cookery.

MAN IN THE NEWS: The Child of Egypt: Gamal Abdel Nasser, leader of the Egyptian people. is often portrayed as a megalomaniac dictator or a Communist puppet. In this article the Middle East expert Edouard Sablier gives a more personal account of tijo lite and thought 0f tins vontroversial hero of the Moslem peoples. By Edouard Sablier.

PROFILES OF PARIS: The Paris Crime Squad in Action: Dangerous Routine: "...The van bore the name of Dubonnet on its sides. It was equipped with living and sleeping quarters. . . . A team of inspectors waited inside for twenty-four hours to catch a criminal red-handed." SUMMITS OF PAINTING: What Makes Cezanne a Great Painter? Steeped in the clarity and order of a great classical tradition, Cezanne began a revolution which has influenced all of modern art. Through unrelenting work and contempt for compromise he broke through the accepted vision of things, and put down on canvas a whole new way of perceiving form.

A STUDY IN POST-WAR PROSPERITY: France's Economy Shifts Gear: Here, in sixteen graphs and tables, Realitds measures the development of the French economy between 1949 and 1956. These tables illustrate the four new aspects of the modern French economy: its unusual rate of progress, its expanding industrialization, the rise in living standards, and France's return to a state of economic, if not financial, health.

ART AND SCIENCE: The Anatomy of Music: The first musical nistrument was the humaii body: heart and lungs pumped out the rhythm while the voice uttered growls and cries and laughter. For all the sophistication that composers have added through the ages, music still has a direct and powerful action on man's body, nerves and brain. This article describes the physical origins and effects of music and the uses to which it can be put for the good of mankind. By Tanneguy de Quenetain.

THE FORCES OF NATURE: To the High Pastures: Under a dark and primordial impulse, sheep in their thousands migrate every summer from the plains to the mountains of Southern France, and every winter they return. Here is the story of these mysterious processions as told by Jean Giono, the great Provencal writer. By Jean Giono.

THE LIVING PAST: The Splendours of the Palazzo Colonna: In the year 1050 the first Colonna established his home under the Vatican walls. Since then an illustrious line of Colonna princes and Popes have transformed tins palace into one of the richest treasure-houses of Europe.

THE PARIS STAGE: A Thousand-and-One First Nights: Jean-Jacques Gautier, theatre critic for Paris's most important morning newspaper Le Figaro, recounts the joys, tribulations and dangers of sitting in judgment on every new play. By Jean-Jacques Gautier.

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