Word: dieu
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...free world. Its trillion-dollar-a-year industrial machine accounts for 10% of the world's output. By 1990, the Japanese may achieve a per capita gross national product that surpasses that of the U.S. As a 19th century French tourist said of another island people, the English: "Mon Dieu, comme ils travaillent...
Bridgette Bardot has finally found it. Not the perfect man (Mon Dieu, c'est im possible!), but something else that has al ways eluded her: the perfect role. After purring and pouting her way through countless films as the sultry femme fatale who could resist anything but temptation, Bardot has turned herself into another French institution, the wise and slightly world-weary philosophe. Voila! At 48, the sex object has become...
More than 300 years ago, Racine wrote I that a province of southern France could support 20 caterers, while a bookseller would starve to death. Today the ratio is probably reversed, if only because, grâce à dieu, cookbooks have largely replaced caterers. More than a gastronomic manual or a compilation of recipes, a well-made cookbook blends strands of history, geography and philosophy with dollops of legend and even a dash of the unsavory. This is particularly true of regional cookbooks, which have come into their own in recent years as increasingly sophisticated home chefs look beyond...
That night, just before she went onstage at the Kennedy Center, she whispered a little prayer: "Man Dieu, aidez moi." Born in Paris, Colbert likes to speak to God directly-in his native tongue. But nothing worked that day. Her timing, perfect the night before, was off ever so slightly, and she even fluffed a couple of lines. Getting up early the next morning to read the Washington Post, she was stunned by a savage review, and almost immediately began throwing up. "Have you seen the newspaper?" she asked an interviewer that afternoon. "Is it true? Tell me frankly." After...
...zanne, nine years his junior, called him "a man to consult, and something like le bon Dieu"-meaning not the vengeful God of judgment but a kindly and paternal deity, the supervisor of hearths and gardens: in a word, the god of growth...