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...Paris, the satirical weekly Canard Enchainé last week suggested the title for a new and presumably sweaty exploitation film, Histoire d'Eau, showing that even the French can occasionally find sex of less compelling interest than water. Players briefly fled the British Open when brushfires broke out at the Royal Birkdale Golf Course. In Switzerland, thousands of fish were dying, officials said, because of oxygen depletion in their normal swimming grounds. Hordes of European citizens knew what the fish were going through: not only had the temperature got out of hand, but some British officials were worried about...
...cabaret. The rumors proved to be true. It also turned out that the French Catholic heirarchy and French Jesuit headquarters had tried to hush up the circumstances surrounding Daniélou's death, claiming he had died outside the house of "friends." The satirical anticlerical weekly Le Canard Enchainé exposed the event in a story full of damning innuendoes. Two weeks ago, Le Monde, France's most prestigious newspaper, confirmed that Daniélou had indeed died in Mme. Santoni's flat...
...headline in France's satirical weekly Le Canard Enchainé (The Chained Duck) was printed in big red type last week, and it read: WATERGATE au CANARD. To the delight of the editors, one of Le Canard's cartoonists, Andre Escaro, had stumbled on an attempt to install bugging devices in the paper's new offices. The result: a scoop that had the government embarrassedly denying any knowledge of the affair, opposition Deputies demanding explanations in the National Assembly-and a sale of 660,000 copies for Le Canard, 210,000 more than the usual...
...that if the government leaders didn't watch out, we would soon find ourselves in a police state. Now, apparently, we are in one." Le Canard, however, did not lose its satirical cool. On the front page of its "Watergaffe" issue, the editors jokingly boasted: "Read Le Canard Enchainé, the most listened-to newspaper in France...
...suspicions of the Gaullists were partially justified. As Le Canard Enchainé's film critic Michel Duran wrote: "You come out of the film not very proud to be one of those Frenchmen with a perpetual weakness for military men who offer themselves as a gift to France . . . Frenchmen, if you only knew that you are forever being cuckolded...