Word: devoir
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...into the beyond. Old ways have hustled French furniture manufacturer Domeau & Peres into the vanguard of its field. Bruno Domeau is a trained saddlemaker who plied his trade in the luxury-automobile industry. Philippe Peres traveled France studying with master craftsmen as an apprentice upholsterer with the Compagnons du Devoir, a throwback to the craftsmen's guilds of the Middle Ages. Yet they have yoked their skills to the plowshare of contemporary design. "We're unusual because we're handcraftmen who've decided to work in the contemporary field," says Peres. "Producing contemporary design is usually left up to industrialists...
...damned press, strained her relationship with the younger royals. When the extramarital affairs of the Prince and Princess of Wales became common gossip, both got a dressing-down. "[The Queen Mother] came to feel that Diana was a very silly girl and had a poor sense of duty, or devoir, as she often calls it," a lady-in-waiting once said. "Diana sensed that the Queen Mother saw her as a second Mrs. Simpson, who was threatening to undermine the whole show," said another aide. Still, she must have been shocked and saddened by Diana's tragic death...
...helped boost the unemployment rate to 18%. Today Quebec is at peace not only with Ottawa but with itself as well. Many parts of the province are already enjoying newfound prosperity; elsewhere, at least the beginnings of a recovery have taken hold. "Quebec," says the Montreal daily Le Devoir, "has entered a whole...
...vesque had posed the question to the voters. He merely asked approval to begin negotiations, promising that there would be no change in Quebec's political status until the results were approved in a second referendum. Ryan, the onetime publisher of Montreal's daily Le Devoir, denounced the ambivalent proposal as "the lowest depths of intellectual decrepitude," since it carefully disguised Lévesque's real goal: to seek independent status for Quebec. In his first province-wide campaign since becoming Liberal leader two years ago, Ryan mounted an old-fashioned electoral drive of evening rallies...
...regional president of the Parti Quebecois, was trounced by an obscure Liberal lawyer, Jean-Claude Rivest. At the same time, Claude Ryan, the new leader of the provincial Liberal Party, won a 2-to-l victory in rural Argenteuil. A former editor of Montreal's influential daily Le Devoir, Ryan, 54, is not only a fresh political face but a debater whose verbal agility is a match for Levesque's. Last week Ryan called on Clark to support a constitutional change that would guarantee French language rights throughout the country as an essential step in strengthening Quebec...