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...first chain, named Croissanterie, was kneaded by Jean-Luc Bret, 34, a former marketing manager for one of France's largest breadmakers. His aim: to "seduce women and children who hate going into restaurants alone." Jean-Luc's rolls-horreur!-are dipped in chocolate or flavored with coffee or stuffed with bananas, Roquefort cheese, mushrooms and a dozen or so other fillings. They are delivered frozen to the stores, and thus come from the oven as mushy as supermarket bread. Even so, the Croissanteries sell 50,000 rolls a day, plus Seines of soft drinks and coffee...
...Bret has established ten Croissanteries and plans to open ten more next year. He already faces stiff competition from at least five other would-be top-of-the-roll tycoons, notably Fashion Designer Michel Axel, who owns Croissant-Show (a Franglais pun on chaud, or hot). Jean-Luc is now planning to invade the U.S. and teach burgerphiles to live by fast and fancy bread alone...
...chuckled at Historian Barbara Tuchman's [March 12] certainty that "every French town has an Avenue Victor Hugo. We never have a Mark Twain Street." Greetings from my house on Mark Twain Street, Palo Alto, Calif. We're one block west of Bret Harte Street...
...that in his native England is to mock liberal pieties. Amis' convincing impersonation of a Colonel Blimp drifting rightward obliges him to include several mediocre poetic slaps at the left that simply do not meet his own standards. He gives space to a few Americans, including Bret Harte, Robert Frost, Peter de Vries and the late Phyllis McGinley. But he omits John Updike, who, when he chooses to be, is probably the best writer of light verse alive...
...Bret Schundler '81 is an executive of the Harvard Christian Fellowship...