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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...
...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...
...downstairs, Escaro heard a voice come over a walkie-talkie held by a uniformed cop in front of the doorway. "Hello, hello, No. 2. Follow the guy who has come out. We've got to get out of here. Every man for himself." Escaro returned later with several Canard colleagues. The raiders had disappeared, but left evidence of their night's effort, which was duly photographed and published...
...Canard, which has been twitting French governments for years by printing juicy details of scandals involving political figures, promptly pinned the break-in on Minister of the Interior Raymond Marcellin whose office is responsible for all authorized wiretapping in the country. Marcellin's Ministry professed ignorance of the incident. But few Frenchmen were totally convinced. For one thing, a Senate investigating committee reported last month that the telephones of 1,500 to 5,000 people in France were tapped every day on a permanent or spot basis-most without a court order and thus illegally. For another, Le Canard...
Opposition spokesmen were indignant. Said Radical-Socialist Senator Henri Caillavet: "Three weeks ago, I said on television that if the government leaders didn't watch out, we would soon find ourselves in a police state. Now, apparently, we are in one." Le Canard, however, did not lose its satirical cool. On the front page of its "Watergaffe" issue, the editors jokingly boasted: "Read Le Canard Enchainé, the most listened-to newspaper in France...