Word: charriere
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...over France, billboards were demanding: "Does baby love Charrier?" Ostensibly, the ads were intended by their sponsor to imply that even infants go for Perrier's bottled mineral water, much of which gushes from a spring near the town of Charrier. Unfortunately, French for baby is bébé, pronounced "B.B.," who, as 45 million Frenchmen know, is Cineminx Brigitte Bardot. In turn, making the coincidence the more monstrous, B.B. is married to highstrung Cinemactor Jacques Charrier. Was Perrier, with gauche humor, hinting of discord in the Charrier family? Brigitte concluded just that, had her lawyers...
...Born. To Mme. Jacques Charrier, a 7-lb. boy (name: Nicholas Jacques). Mother is: a) An actress. c) A sculptress...
Early one morning last week, a blonde, 25-year-old Parisienne, whose married name is Mme. Jacques Charrier and who works for the movies, was delivered of a healthy, blue-eyed, 7-lb. baby boy. Long before Nicholas Jacques Charrier entered Paris, the French press, excited beyond endurance-and reason-turned his mother's accouchement into the biggest story since the ascendancy of Charles de Gaulle...
Newsmen set up a melee, some 300 at full battle strength, around the Charrier apartment at 71 Avenue Paul-Doumer. Barred from audiences with the expectant mother, the reporters let their fancy roam. She was sneaking out of the back door daily in a wig (France-Dimanche). She was missing, perhaps "hiding at her grandmother's" (Paris-Presse). She was not missing (Paris-Jour...
...Bardot issue: 'Blue eyes and black hair" (Le Figaro). 'blue eyes and brown hair" (Paris-Presse), 'brown hair and yellow eyes" (Brigitte's secretary). Afterward, as the spent corps converged on the Royal Passy Café near Brigitte's home, where Papa Charrier was serving champagne, two newsmen collapsed from exhaustion and someone poured beer over their heads. With cruel disregard for the photographers who had camped on her doorstep so long, Brigitte waited two days and then handed out four pictures of herself and her son taken by an amateur...