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...like the pork," he writes. While his musings about pigs are affectionate, Reynaud, 40, avoids sentimentality by refusing to gloss over the animal's journey from pen to plate. Instead he makes a feature of it, opening the book with a chapter titled "Pig-Killing Time at Saint-Agrève" (his mountain hometown in the Ardèche region of France) that is a frank, celebratory portrayal of the "taking apart and devouring" of one of the locally raised swine...
...headaches and his hospital expenses, Delair was awarded a total of $7,300 in damages from the car driver. And under a legal principle known as prejudice d'agrément, which gives a Frenchman the right to some recompense for being deprived of his favorite pleasure, the court threw in a symbolic gesture to take care of the farmer's lost taste for wine: an additional ten francs...
...hearts of young republicans for the practice of private and public virtue." Each year the school accepts about 80 men out of more than 600 candidates. The goal of normaliens, who study either science or literature, is not only a university degree but also the diploma called I'agrégation, passport to France's top teaching jobs. In return for a free education, normaliens teach in a university for at least five years...
...quick." With the encouragement of his mother (who at 70 recently retired from work) and his mechanic stepfather, he won a lycee scholarship at eight, relentlessly mastered Greek, Latin, English and mathematics, at 20 placed first in philosophy among 250 candidates for France's highest scholastic competition, the Agrègation. In 1932, with his gifted bride of a year, Tunis-born Anthropologist Georgette Fagot,* he set off for Mexico, there spent most of the next seven years in anthropological study of the Mexican Indians. By 1939 he had won a doctorate, the nickname "Jacques the Aztec...
...Tiny Pin? His grandparents were peasants, his father was an artillery officer, and Henri Petiot began life as a bright young man with an academic future. He majored simultaneously in law, geography and history at the University of Grenoble, took the equivalent of an M.A. in each, won his agrégation (slightly higher than Ph.D.) at 21. He became a lycée professor in Neuilly, continued teaching until 1945. His first book, a volume of essays called Notre Inquiétude, was published in 1926. He signed it Daniel-Rops-the name he had invented for a character...