Word: canard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cabaret. The rumors proved to be true. It also turned out that the French Catholic heirarchy and French Jesuit headquarters had tried to hush up the circumstances surrounding Daniélou's death, claiming he had died outside the house of "friends." The satirical anticlerical weekly Le Canard Enchainé exposed the event in a story full of damning innuendoes. Two weeks ago, Le Monde, France's most prestigious newspaper, confirmed that Daniélou had indeed died in Mme. Santoni's flat...
...Figaro, La Croix and other defenders of Daniélou sharply challenged Canard's suggestion that Daniélou had died in flagrante delicto. The French episcopacy denounced the "grave insinuations" concerning the cardinal's death, insisting that "his apostolate extended to the most diverse realms, often to the most disreputable and downtrodden persons both inside and outside the church...
...woman Daniélou visited has remained as mysterious as the circumstances of his death. Her first name is unknown, though Canard calls her Mini. Only the gossipmongering scandal sheet Le Meilleur claimed to have talked with Mme. Santoni, who insisted that the cardinal's visit was entirely platonic. "He was fully dressed," she reportedly told the paper. "[He] collapsed after climbing the four stories to my flat." She seemed unimpressed by all the furor: "Too much fuss is being made about this quite unimportant affair...
...appearance of so many men from E.N.A. at the levers of real political power has brought unaccustomed-and mostly unwanted-attention to the small but supremely influential school. Wryly commenting on France's apparent change from a republic to a tight little technocracy, the satirical weekly Le Canard Enchame limply saluted the new government by punning "Long live I'enarchie." Pierre Racine, the E.N.A.'s thoughtful, sagacious director, went so far as to pass the word to Giscard to go easy on the old-school ties lest he "give people the impression that the E.N.A. is running...
...favorite male chauvinist taunt is that men make not only the best chefs (Carêeme, Escoffier) but the most demanding gourmets too. To kill the latter canard, New York magazine's food maven Gael Greene helped organize a ladies' feast at Manhattan's posh Four Seasons restaurant. One of France's premier chefs (helas, un homme), Paul Bocuse, whose Lyons restaurant bears his name as well as the Guide Michelin's esteemed three stars, flew over the day before the banquet burdened with such Gallic specialties as pate de foie gras, truffles, Mediterranean bass...