The French have the [French Cinema Center, which] gives subsidies—grants to help people get along to get their films done. I wrote a story that was flattering to the French psyche about an American GI who comes to France, but

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Passing stranger! You do not know how longingly I look upon you. You must be he I was seeking, or she I was seeking— it comes to me as of a dream