The French were cold, hungry, shabby, miserable. Youngsters complained about the bleak future, housewives about bare cupboards, workers about the high cost of living, shopkeepers about inflation, farmers about the lack of goods, industrialists about a shortage of materials, and everybody about selfish bureaucrats, heavy taxes and the scarcity of good wine.
All that was caustic, suspicious and envious in the French character welled up. People hated the ubiquitous black marketeers, sneered at their nouveau riche manners. They railed against the Government. The gay, graceful days of Gallic joie de vivre seemed...
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