Word: edouard
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Fortunately, his wife’s former flame Edouard (Delon J. De Metz ’10) has just returned from a year in America, complete with dashing smile, loaded wallet, and a heart dedicated to Claudine. These plans go awry when the affairs lose their glamour and deeper secrets unfold...
...Well, that’s a bit difficult. I don’t think I could name that one without getting in any trouble. So I’ll have to go with no.Delon J. de Metz ’10RR: Who do you play?DD: I play Edouard, who comes back from America after inheriting a fortune from his uncle. I come back to attempt to court the woman I was in love with before I left, just to find that she is now married. RR: Do you have any experience with married women?DD: No, no, this...
HOWEVER TEMPTED THEY may be, active diplomats can't insult world leaders. So the esteemed former Swiss ambassador to the U.S. Edouard Brunner waited until retirement. Brunner, former U.N. mediator in the Middle East, caused a stir in 2002 when he wrote that Margaret Thatcher was solely responsible for the failure of initial talks between Britain and the newly democratic Argentina after the Falklands war, calling the former Prime Minister "vindictive." (Thatcher did not comment.) Brunner...
Back when they both lived in France, Hamid Senni and Edouard Jozan might have been on different planets. Senni, the son of Moroccan immigrants, grew up in a soulless housing project near Valence and, egged on by his father, scraped his way through school. More than once, he was told he would never find a job. Jozan, by contrast, is one of France's highflyers. He attended one of the best secondary schools in Paris and, after graduating from the nation's ultra-competitive élite engineering college, switched to a career in international finance. For all their differences, however...
...Meiji Emperor, Japan in the 1870s was just opening to the outside world after centuries of isolation. Japanese handicrafts were flooding into European department stores and art galleries. Japonisme, a fascination with all things Japanese, was soon the rage among French intellectuals and artists, among them Vincent van Gogh, Edouard Manet, Camille Pissarro and the young Monet. Perhaps for that reason Impressionism caught on early in Japan and remains ferociously popular there...