In Popular Culture
The Bernardo Bertolucci film The Dreamers, based on the novel The Holy Innocents by Gilbert Adair tells the story of an American university student in Paris during the protests.
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“Fifty million Frenchmen can’t be wrong.”
—Anonymous. Popular saying.
Dating from World War I—when it was used by U.S. soldiers—or before, the saying was associated with nightclub hostess Texas Quinan in the 1920s. It was the title of a song recorded by Sophie Tucker in 1927, and of a Cole Porter musical in 1929.
“Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)