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...plot is equally baffling. Lucille, a woman of insufferable virtue, has disrupted the love-pre-occupied town of Aix because she won't speak to &anyone who is promiscuous or a cuckold. She refuses to speak to Armand. He realizes that his wife, Paola, is unfaithful. Paola (Cynthia Krause) thereupon drugs Lucille, and with the help of the bawd Barbette (Emily Levinc), convinces her she has been ravished by Count Marcellus (John Ross), the town Don Juan...
...AIX-EN-PROVENCE (July 11-Aug. 1), a historic spa 17 miles north of Marseille, traditionally provides the most exciting of the French festivals. Held in the torchlighted, tapestry-draped courtyard of the archbishop's palace, the event will feature, in addition to its annual Mozart cycle (Cosi fan Tutte, Die Zauberflote), concerts by Sopranos Regine Crespin and Teresa Stich-Ran dall, Violinist Igor Oistrakh and the Smith-Princeton Chamber Chorus...
...this so impressed the Appellate Court in Aix-en-Provence that it re versed the convictions. "Inasmuch as the spectacle of the nudity of the human body has nothing intrinsic in it that would outrage normal, even delicate decency, and since Claudine Durand concealed her sexual parts with a sufficiently opaque monokini, we acquit her." As things now stand, this summer's French beachwear is likely to be a lot scantier...
...should have the choice of being celibate or marrying, if they wish to do so. Last year he left the Dominican order and in defiance of the church authorities published his arguments in a book called The Priestly State - Marriage or Celibacy? Recalling the early days of solitude in Aix-en-Provence, after having torn himself from the only life that was his since boyhood, he said: "I walked the windswept streets making the unconscious gesture of touching my new suit, feeling for the robe that was no longer there...
...full force of the midsummer madness struck Western Europe last week. Bulletins on French radio had the urgency of war communiques: "The traffic jam is now approaching Lyon . . . It is now impossible to pass through Avignon . . . Accidents have blocked all roads into Aix." In Italy, three-quarters of the population of Milan fled the city. Rome, Florence, Naples and Genoa were dead, and Capri, Elba, Rimini and Viareggio as jammed as Coney Island on the 4th of July. Thousands of vacationers had to stand twelve hours in railroad coaches to reach the sea. In Spain, the government had moved from...