Word: carnet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Julien Duvivier, 71, French movie director; of an apparent heart attack; in Paris. A veteran of silent films, Duvivier first used a series of character-study vignettes in 1937's Carnet de Bal to illuminate the movie's main theme. Among his other remembrances: 1951's The Little World of Don Camillo, starring Fernandel...
Figaro keeps on intimate terms with its status-conscious readers by publishing a column called Le Carnet du Jour, a listing of all the births, marriages and deaths of those who count in French society. "You're not really married if it hasn't been noted in Figaro," is a familiar quip. A 37-year-old boulevardier and gossip columnist named Philippe Bouvard cruises Paris in a Citroen equipped with television and a telephone. As he picks up tips, he phones any of 15 legmen and women to follow them up. "Before, only a name was enough," says...
...encourage concierges, waiters, taxi drivers and the like, each tourist will receive a "carnet de cheques-sourire" (checkbook of smiles), with tickets that he can tear out and distribute (along with his tip) as a reward for especially cheerful service. At the end of the season, 50 beaming Frenchmen with the largest number of smiles will win a brand-new car, a free vacation to Tahiti or the West Indies, or another prize. Will it work? One skeptical tourist official sighs, "Parisians are born complainers-they don't even like each other, not to mention tourists." And he shrugs...