Word: doux
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Every so often each year there occurs a self-bestowed Christmas in the American home. A package arrives. The eager family gathers round to rip it open. Instead of "Blessings from Gran," the enclosed billet-doux reads...
...Mary Queen of Scots, Oliver Cromwell) Woman-About-England Lady Antonia Fraser has focused on the topic dearest to her heart: love. The former wife of Conservative M.P. Hugh Fraser-and the current companion of Playwright Harold Pinter-says she loves nothing more than to give and receive billets-doux. To kindle ardor in the souls of her readers, Antonia, 44, has compiled Love Letters (Knopf; $8.95), a tender anthology of 135 amorous notes dashed off through the centuries by lovers of distinction. Sample sweet nothings: "You are a wretch, truly perverse, truly stupid, a real Cinderella. You never write...
Even after publication of the billets doux, students of Jefferson described the affair as a platonic flirtation, despite Jefferson's classic love letter known as "My Head and My Heart." Written in one of his all too frequent depressions, it is an elegiac disquisition on the miracle of love-by a rationalist who did not believe in miracles...
...NIGHT. A sly, shrewd billet-doux to the giddy excesses of film making and film makers from François Truffaut...
...sort of an aerial billet-doux. "HI JOHN!" it read. "THINGS ARE EVEN BETTER AT SUFFOLK DOWNS." The offer offered free admission to any fan who admitted he had seen Harvard play Northeastern, and had a ticket stub to prove...