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There is a bit too much air in Author Clark's book. She lards her account with odd facts (the pearl producer is not an oyster at all but a mollusk known as Meleagrina), sketches of local characters, and wordy, impressionistic evocations of the Breton countryside. At such moments a reader's attention may well wander, but for the most part Author Clark holds him with wit and verbal polish. It is the process known as tromper le lecteur...
Died. Lucky (real name: Lucie Daouphars), 41, empress of Paris fashion models until her 1958 retirement, since then their "presidente" as founder of a mutual aid society for needy mannequins, a lynx-eyed Breton who once worked as a welder, discovered there was a better way to put things together and earned from Christian Dior the tribute: "Lucky is fashion turned into theatrical spectacle"; of cancer; in Paris...
...defendants at Vincennes were an odd. and oddly frightening, lot. Most of them were slack-jawed youths who seemed equally lacking in confidence and intelligence. One was an army lieutenant with the old, aristocratic Breton name of Bougrenet de la Tocnaye, and a head reeling with heroic memories of his family's feats of arms dating back to the Crusades. The leader, Lieut. Colonel Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry, 35, who had graduated from the famed Polytechnique and served as a brilliant air force engineer, revealed himself as a man who put great industry, intelligence and logic to work within...
...ACADEMIE FRANÇAISE. "As I see it now, I wouldn't want to belong. I think the last crop they let in is just not up to standard. There are others on the outside worth more than many on the inside-André Breton, Paulhan, Lévi-Strauss, Sartre if he weren't such an idiot, such a strange, bizarre monster...
...with on-the-scene recordings of the Frejus Dam break. During last summer's peasant sitdown strike in Brittany, RTF prudently quoted Lc Figaro, a Parisian daily that put the rosiest possible complexion on the strike; Number One's mikes picked up, live, the protests of the Breton peasants themselves...