Word: bonjour
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...Paris set, like Françoise herself, is to wear both her outdated wedding rings together. That way, a man can tell she is a "dangerous person to become serious about," while if he persists in chasing a three-or four-ring femme fatale, he is really saying bonjour, tristesse...
When he heard the news of France's recognition while on tour in Africa, Red China's Foreign Minister Chou En-lai broke into rapturous French. "Bonjour, bonjour, comment allez-vous!" he cried to France's ambassador in the Sudan. "That's great. I am very happy." He also recalled that he and Foreign Minister Chen Yi "were both students together in Paris many years...
This week she will visit Washington, but plans to see no important officials. What about John Kennedy? "I would be satisfied to say to him, 'Bonjour,' and the rest would come according to the inspiration of the moment...
...chances are that she will not get to say even bonjour to the President, whose chief foreign visitor this week will be Communist Dictator Tito. But more's the pity. A meeting between the President and Mme. Nhu could hardly make relations between the U.S. and Viet Nam worse than they already are. The President might even learn some things he hasn't been told before...
France's Françoise Sagan is the most famous example: at 18, she coolly chronicled how a girl grows up by driving her prospective stepmother to suicide (Bonjour Tristesse). In Le Rempart des Beguines, Belgium's Franchise Mallet-Joris, at 20, documented a listless daughter's love affair with her father's mistress. The trend may have reached a climax with The Age of Malaise, a novel about a teenage girl in Rome written by Dacia Maraini, 25. Awarded the $10,000 Formentor publishers' prize for some reason not decipherable in the book itself...