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The Master Thinkers By André Glucksmann

Harper & Row, 313 pp., $16.95 French nineteenth century’ fiction was animated by a central theme: the arrival from the provinces of ambitious young men who dreamt of taking Paris by storm and who sometimes came to a sad end. Today, the idée maîtresse of French non-fiction seems to be the assault by onetime Marxist intellectuals or Communist Party members on the citadel of the most powerful Soviet fifth column to be found in any Western democracy—the French CP, guarantor of President Giscard d’Estaing’s re-election in 1981.

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The Master Thinkers By André Glucksmann

Harper & Row, 313 pp., $16.95 French nineteenth century’ fiction was animated by a central theme: the arrival from the provinces of ambitious young men who dreamt of taking Paris by storm and who sometimes came to a sad end. Today, the idée maîtresse of French non-fiction seems to be the assault by onetime Marxist intellectuals or Communist Party members on the citadel of the most powerful Soviet fifth column to be found in any Western democracy—the French CP, guarantor of President Giscard d’Estaing’s re-election in 1981.