FRANCE
abortions: g64 10/8 7
accidents: g70 8/22 30; g66 3/8 12; g66 10/22 30; g61 7/22 29
children crossing streets and riding bicycles: g78 1/8 29
alcoholic beverage consumption: g85 12/22 29; g77 11/22 30
alcoholism: g80 3/8 5; g80 4/22 7; g77 12/22 5, 10-11; w74 451, 453; g71 6/22 3-5; g71 8/22 26; g68 6/8 27-28; g65 1/22 17; g61 1/8 31; g57 5/8 21-24
Algeria: g62 4/8 30; g61 2/22 30; g61 6/8 29
anti-Semitism: g48 4/8 27-28
automobiles:
accidents: g80 12/22 30; g76 2/8 31
deaths: g78 11/22 15
fuel consumption: g80 10/8 29
bankruptcies: g76 1/22 30-31; g76 3/22 29
banks: g61 10/22 21
safe-deposit boxes raided: g84 8/8 31
bicycles for public use: g77 3/22 30
Blum, Léon: yb80 117-118
book on predictions of Nostradamus: w82 1/1 15
book Suicide: Mode d’emploi (Suicide: Operating Instructions): g82 12/22 29
bus transportation in city of Angers: g77 3/8 31
carnival: g73 3/8 5, 8
Catholic Church: yb80 154-155; g80 9/22 10; w77 325-326; w76 360; w75 651; g75 3/22 16-17; w74 745-747; g74 11/22 31; g73 9/8 3-4, 6-7; g73 12/8 17; w71 355-356; g71 7/22 5-7, 9-10; w70 37-39; w70 451-454; g70 1/22 29; g70 4/22 6, 15, 29; g70 5/8 29; g70 8/8 30; g69 3/8 8-11; g69 4/22 19; g68 4/22 11, 20, 22, 24, 31; g65 12/22 29; g64 8/22 29-30; g60 10/8 17-20; g60 11/8 7; g59 9/22 17; g59 10/22 8; g46 7/17 5-6; g44 2/2 3-6; g43 5/12 23-28; g42 12/23 6; g41 11/12 12; g39 5/31 20; g39 10/18 9
attendance at Mass: g79 2/8 31
decline: w80 10/15 22
influence on communism: g60 10/8 21; g59 10/22 8; w54 28
letter by bishops in favor of nuclear weapons: g85 1/8 11
Lourdes shrine: g75 4/22 31; g58 7/8 4; g57 3/22 19; w54 69; g41 4/30 24-25
percentage of population viewed as Catholic: w77 325
priests held in low esteem (quote): g78 8/8 30
priests lament lack of catechism: g78 9/8 6
survey as to Catholics who never went to confession: g83 10/22 30
clergy attitude toward war: w82 12/15 11
Concorde supersonic jetliner: g78 1/22 13-15, 17
court case over smoking on train: g78 11/22 30
crime: g81 4/8 31; g79 10/22 4; g75 11/22 4
on the Champs Élysées: g81 2/22 31
death of snail eater: g80 2/8 31
de Gaulle, Charles: yb80 133
Devil’s Island: g43 3/3 22
disasters: g71 11/22 3; g67 10/8 30; g66 9/22 31; g64 9/22 30; g60 2/22 16-20; g51 5/22 26
divorce statistics: g78 10/22 11; g76 1/8 31
dogs: g80 11/8 31
economy: g69 9/8 3; g69 9/22 29; g64 11/8 31
Eiffel Tower:
discussion: g85 2/8 12-15
electricity: g67 10/22 29; g66 12/8 18
energy conservation: g78 1/22 30
food costs: g80 1/22 30
food surplus: g62 8/8 10
foreign aid: g64 10/22 16
fortune-telling: g65 9/22 27
free trade: g59 6/8 16-19
French Revolution: g84 3/8 3-4; g54 1/22 8
gap between rich and poor: g76 11/22 29
garlic capital of world: g78 12/22 30
government: g69 7/22 30; w66 714-715; g66 2/8 30; g66 8/8 30
debt: g77 4/8 5-6
history: g66 7/22 19-20; g62 1/8 7-8; g60 2/8 13-16; g54 1/22 8; g48 6/22 27-28; g44 4/26 3-7; g43 3/3 19-26; g43 5/12 25; g43 8/4 4-8; g41 4/30 9-11, 21-23; g40 9/18 21-22; g39 8/23 25; g38 12/28 20-21
homosexuality:
age of consent lowered: g82 4/22 29
horn on beast of Daniel 7:8: w59 477; yw 178
Huguenot museums: g78 7/22 15
Huguenots massacred: qm 294-295; w57 112; qm55 294-295; g54 1/22 7; g43 2/17 26; g38 12/28 20-21; cc 7
Jehovah’s Witnesses: yb86 22-23; yb85 36; w77 326-329; yb76 15; yb75 16; w74 745-747; w73 634; yb73 12-13; g73 9/22 16; g72 5/22 24; w71 17; w71 90-91; w71 368; yb71 21, 137-139; g71 7/22 10; yb70 57-58, 153-155; w69 602-603; yb69 134-136; w68 669; yb68 135-136; g68 4/8 7; g68 4/22 29; yb67 148-150; yb66 130-132; yb65 117-119; w64 767; yb64 150-152; w63 309, 311; yb63 137-139; w62 510, 764-766; yb62 53-55, 139-141; g62 1/22 23; w61 170-171, 411, 601-603; yb61 139-141; g61 6/8 17-18
account of a little girl with Down’s syndrome: g84 1/8 20-24
Arnold, Adolphe: yb80 103-104
Arnold, Emma: yb80 103-104, 106-107
Arnold, Simone: yb80 99, 104-105, 120
Association Chrétienne Les Témoins de Jéhovah de France: yb80 257
ban on organization: w80 8/15 6; yb80 87-88
ban on organization lifted: yb80 117-118
ban on Watchtower: yb80 128
ban on Watchtower lifted: yb80 157
Behunick, Stephen: yb80 125
Berean Studies: yb80 46-47, 55
Berner, Alice: yb80 76-77, 97
Bethel annex in Incarville: yb80 158-160
Bethel annex in Louviers: yb80 150-152
Bethel family: yb80 76-77, 114, 118, 124, 135, 159
Binkele, Conrad C.: yb80 45-46, 49-50, 52, 54, 63, 88-89
boxer accepts truth: g81 11/8 16-20
branch office: yb80 67, 73, 75-77, 83, 85, 88, 90, 112, 114, 118, 124, 132-133, 135-136; w79 1/1 9-11; g78 7/22 9, 15; yb77 20; na46 50
Catholics learn truth: w77 327-328
“Central European Office”: yb80 54, 63
circuit assemblies: yb80 124, 129
circuits: yb80 161
circuit work: yb80 117, 122, 125
clergy opposition: yb80 61-62, 80
colporteur work: yb80 53, 55-56, 60, 66-72
congregations: yb80 87, 120, 132, 137-138, 141, 148-149, 157-158, 161
conventions: yb84 42; w78 12/1 6-7, 12; g78 11/22 22; g76 10/22 16; w56 121-123, 136; w51 756-759; w47 301-302, 349-351; g38 1/12 3-5; w37 220; w31 234-235
Cooke, John: yb80 91-92
corporation that represents: yb81 257
Corsica: yb80 128-129, 157
court case: yb80 135-137
Delannoy, Emile: yb80 52-53, 59, 78, 83, 112, 114, 119
deportation of foreign publishers: yb80 78, 80-81
districts: yb80 161
district work: yb80 129-130
doubters regain confidence: w80 8/1 15
expressions of formerly inactive ones: w83 8/15 22
film New World Society in Action: yb80 129-130
foreign colporteurs: yb80 66-67
foreign colporteurs expelled: yb80 72, 74
French edition of “Let God Be True”: yb80 122-123
French edition of New World Translation: yb80 140-141
French edition of Watchtower: yb80 40, 49-51, 61, 77-78, 114-115, 123, 144
French edition of Yearbook: yb80 83, 150
French editions of Awake!: yb80 128
“French Office” in Berne, Switzerland: yb80 51-54, 65
“French Office” in Geneva, Switzerland: yb80 42, 45-46, 48-51
Freytag, Alexandre: yb80 42, 46-51, 56, 88-89
Geiger, Henri: yb80 90-95, 112, 114-116, 118, 124, 127, 139-140
Gendreau, Renée: yb80 94-95, 112
Germann, Fred (life story): w81 11/15 23-27
Germouty, Henri: yb80 95
Golden Age, The: yb80 58, 60, 77-78
growth: yb80 64, 78, 87, 116-117, 124-125, 127, 129-134, 137-142, 148-149, 156-158, 161
Harbeck, Martin: yb80 63, 66-67, 85-86, 90
Harp of God, The: yb80 59
honesty: g79 6/8 15
Huber, Franz: yb80 102-103
informal witnessing: yb80 115
International Bible Students Association formed: yb80 52
Jehovah’s protection: yb80 89-90, 96-100, 109
Johnson, P. S. L.: yb80 57
Jontès, Léopold: yb80 115, 122, 127, 135-137, 140, 144
Kingdom Ministry School: yb80 139, 158
Knecht, Charles: yb80 85-89
Koehl, Adolphe: yb80 99-101
Lanz, Emile: yb80 42, 44-46, 88-89
life story “From Bitterness to Love for God”: g83 7/8 20-23
literature depots: yb80 36, 39, 52, 58
literature hidden from opposers: yb80 99-101
magazine distribution: yb80 130, 141-142
Memorial: yb80 60, 64, 86, 116-117, 122, 131-132, 138, 141-142, 148, 156-157, 161; w77 329
Millions Now Living Will Never Die: yb80 56, 58, 62
missionaries: yb80 123-124, 132
modern history: yb80 34-161
Monaco: yb80 157
Muhaluk, Paul: yb80 125
Muslims accept truth: yb84 13-14
narrow escapes from Gestapo: yb80 109-112
New World Translation: yb80 154-155
Paris office under Swiss branch: yb80 66, 73
Paturel, Christian (life story): g85 12/22 18-22
People’s Pulpit tracts: yb80 40
persecution: yb80 101-103, 105-112, 128, 133; jp 153; na46 50; w45 240; g40 12/11 19
Petit, Paul (life story): w77 681-684
phonographs: yb80 81-82, 85
Photo-Drama of Creation: yb80 54-55, 58-59, 64, 66
Piéchota, Louis (life story): w80 8/15 5-10
pilgrim work: yb80 39-40, 44, 53, 56-59
pioneers: yb80 83, 120, 122, 157
placard witnessing: yb80 121
poker player learns truth: w77 329
Polish congregations: yb80 63-65, 87
prayer for help answered: w81 7/1 6
radio broadcasting: yb80 74-75, 82
relief supplies for French Witnesses: yb80 116
Rütimann, Alfred: yb80 78-79, 115-116
service experiences: yb80 69-72, 155-156; w74 746-747; w72 221-222; g58 10/8 27-28; w55 216; g55 7/8 27-28; w54 63, 140; g42 10/14 11-12; w41 272; w40 320, 352; g40 10/16 28
smuggling spiritual food during Nazi era: yb80 97-99
Society’s books win gold medals at Paris Exhibition: yb80 79, 81
special pioneers: yb80 125, 128-129, 131-134, 140, 157
star actor in operettas learns truth: yb78 16
street witnessing: yb80 128
Sutter, Marcel: kc 159; yb80 105-106
transcription machines: yb80 81-82
Truth book: yb80 144-145, 148-149
unassigned territory: yb80 131-132; w74 746
underground printing of Children book during Nazi era: yb80 111
underground work during Nazi era: yb80 93-102
use of motorcycles: yb80 76, 78
U.S. soldier makes disciples: w80 10/15 26, 28-29; yb80 113
V.D.M. questions: yb80 53
Watch Tower Publications Index: yb80 159-160
Weber, Adolphe: yb80 35-36, 38-43, 46, 51, 56-59, 65, 119
Witness risks life to remove bomb from Kingdom Hall: g85 2/22 12-13
Zaugg, Ernest: yb80 51-52, 54, 56, 59-60, 63, 88-89
Zopfer, Gustave: yb80 78, 83, 88-89
Zürcher, Franz: yb80 58-59, 86
Zutter, Charles: yb80 89-90
juvenile delinquency: g66 9/22 31; g64 11/22 29; g59 12/22 14
language:
prohibition of foreign words in ads: g76 3/22 30
Laval, Pierre: yb80 72
lottery:
winner finds only grief: g80 8/8 3-4
Louvre: g69 8/8 12-16
map: yb80 37; g78 7/22 12
microcars: g82 3/22 29-30
money: g61 6/8 17
Paris: g55 5/8 13-16
burglary: g82 6/22 30
Paris peace talks: g68 6/22 29
politics: g62 12/22 29
poll on conscience and marital infidelity: w76 552
pollution:
air: g79 6/8 16; g71 12/8 29
water: g78 9/22 31
population: yb86 36
prostitution: g61 1/8 31
Protestants: w74 745
rabies: g76 6/22 29-30
railroads: g81 5/22 29
high-speed trains: g82 12/22 16-19; g81 12/22 30; g80 5/8 30; g63 11/22 25
Paris to Saigon: g77 3/8 30
red snow: g76 5/22 31
relations with China: g64 3/22 29
relations with United States: g67 4/22 30
religion: w75 323; w74 745-747; g63 5/22 13; g61 3/8 5
church attendance: g80 12/8 3
decline: yb80 34-35; g80 2/22 17-18
“The Friends of Man”: yb80 51
savate (French boxing): g85 12/22 18-22
schools: g60 10/8 17-20
sight-seeing: g78 7/22 9-15
size: yb80 34
skyscraper: g69 8/22 30
solar energy: g79 6/8 16-19; g78 2/8 13
solar furnace: g72 10/8 26
space achievement: g66 1/22 30
spiritism: g68 10/22 30; w63 687
surveys:
as to Catholics who never went to confession: g83 10/22 30
is Jesus “really living”?: g79 2/8 31
whether people believe in sin: g83 10/22 30
taxes: g77 3/22 29
telephone:
aristocratic titles dropped from book: g78 11/8 29
trees: g70 8/22 30
tuberculosis: g63 5/22 29
Tunisia: g61 9/8 29
tunnels: g65 9/8 30; g64 3/22 29; g63 2/8 16-19; g62 10/22 30
tunnel to Britain: g74 5/22 31
unemployment: g75 3/22 8
visits by—
Covington, H. C.: yb80 119; w47 301-302, 349-351
Franz, F. W.: yb80 119; w79 1/1 11; w47 301-302, 349-351
Franz, R. V.: yb80 159; w79 1/1 11
Henschel, M. G.: yb80 115-116, 119, 144; w46 29-30
Knorr, N. H.: yb80 115-117, 119, 130-131, 135, 139; w57 270; w46 29-30
Russell, C. T.: yb84 42; yb80 35-36, 42-44
Rutherford, J. F.: yb80 44, 54, 58, 60-62, 64-65, 67; w31 235
Suiter, G.: yb80 119; w47 349-351
Voltaire’s Treatise on Toleration: g83 11/8 3-4
Waldenses: w81 8/1 12-15
war: g54 12/22 9-10; g47 9/8 4
weapons: g72 10/8 10, 29
nuclear bomb: g66 8/8 29; g61 2/8 29; g61 6/8 29
wine: g74 12/22 30
consumption: g82 3/8 30
production: g57 5/8 23
women:
employment: g79 1/22 19
world aims: g64 3/8 29
World War I: g39 12/27 23-31
World War II: yb80 91-93; w62 765-766; g47 9/8 6; g46 6/19 29; g45 1/31 10-16; g44 4/12 3-7; g44 4/26 3-7; g43 3/17 22; g43 4/14 3-8; g43 5/12 19-22; g43 8/4 4-8; g43 9/15 7-11; g43 11/24 3-8; g42 4/29 14-15; g42 9/16 19-22; g41 1/22 20; g41 4/30 9-11, 21-23; g41 9/3 19; g40 8/21 21; g39 3/8 23; g39 11/1 18-19; g35 5/22 535-536
youths: g69 1/22 7; g68 5/22 9