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Focuses on the situation of the social classes, institutions, and cultural patterns that emerged from the French Revolution. Comments on the battle carried on by the Free Thought movement; Discussion of the consequences of the French Revolution on the people of France; Discussion of the views of sociologist Henri Mendras on the social changes that have taken place in France.

Explores the social, political and cultural issues related to scent and human capacity to smell. Difference in the olfactory propensities of French and Americans; Discussion on the growing anti-scent movement in the U.S.; Claim that racism has been predicated on the belief that one could detect the characteristic of another smell; Idea of philosopher Emmanuel Kant about human's sense of smell; Famous French political and historical figures who have unusual like or dislike toward a particular smell.

Comments on the political leanings of the French labor movement. History of the movement; Effect of the revolution on the formulation of the principles of liberal, progressive democracy by which the modern world of the West lives; Aspects of the French situation which suggests a seeming contradiction between political and economic trends; Connection between political trends and the present labor situation; Significance of the structure of the French labor movement to American liberals attempting to appraise accurately the soundness or faultiness of U.S. policy towards France; History of the General Confederation of Labor (CGT), France's leading labor movement; Communist influence over the CGT.

Focuses on the probability of condemnation of France in the United Nations for the Algerian War between France and Algeria. Probable effects of condemnation of France by the UN; Role of the UN intervention in Algeria, in provoking internal conflicts in France; Efforts of the UN to restore peace between the two countries; Views of French President Charles de Gaulle on the working of the UN; Possibility of the passage of a UN resolution which would attempt to impose a referendum or a plebiscite on Algeria, under the UN supervision; Information on probable successors of French Algeria; Prospects of fascism in France after the reign of de Gaulle; Dissatisfaction of French leftists on the compromise peace between France and Algeria; Demand of Algerian party leaders to establish a social or socialistic revolution in Algeria; Description of de Gaulle as the first French Chief of State, who has referred to an Algerian Republic as an entity separate from France.

The article presents information on the book "The French Labor Movement, by Val R. Lorwin. Val Lorwin's carefully compiled account of the French labor movement from its beginnings as secret societies of wandering bachelor journeymen in the fifteenth century down to its present schizophrenic paralysis, is in a sense an observation, like Malraux's, on the shabby, worn, down-at-the-heels remnants of a brilliant past. In France today there is a syndicate with effective representation protecting the powerfully institutionalized interest of every economic activity in the country, except those of wage-earners.

The article focuses on the book "The Marquis de Sade," edited by Paul Dinnage. Donatien-Alphonse-François de Sade's sense of apartness, his inferiority complex found good ground for an over-compensation, when the French Revolution came, he felt entitled to speak as the Moses, the lawgiver of the new Republic. The present volume, besides containing Simone de Beauvoir's illuminating essay, supplies a good selection which does not shy at scabrous passages. The section from "Juliette" will be enough to illustrate that strange quality of Sade which makes him curiously modern, the perfectly empty musical construction of the hero of Thomas Mann's "Doctor Faustus."

The article features Haiti. According to the author, Haiti remained an enigma to the American intelligence than any other countries in the Latin-American territory. The country was once been a French colony, but was liberated after a servile revolution. According to the auhtor, the hundred years of self-governance had erased all the trace of French influence in the country.