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Marcel Proust recalled a childhood Easter vacation. By embroidering its anniversary edition with evocative pieces from its rich past, Paris' oldest daily, Le Figaro, celebrated its centennial in grand style last week...
...Paris Opera that glittered with the helmets of the Gardes Republicaines, and the dancing of Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn. It was all quite in character for a paper that once moved Charles de Gaulle to jest: "Each morning when its readers pick it up, they murmur: 'St. Figaro, reassure us.' " Pride in Speculation. Over the years, the paper has proved consistently reas suring to its affluent, conservative readership. Figaro prides itself on being no ordinary paper that merely dispenses the news. It has always had literary ambitions, and part of the front page every day is devoted...
Such fare sometimes turns out to be heavy going, but no paper boasts a more loyal readership. Figaro's circulation has now reached 400,000 - third largest of all French papers. And since almost a quarter of its readers live out side Paris, Figaro comes close to being a national newspaper. For its rural readers, it also produces a weekly 84-page magazine, Figaro Agricole; for city dwellers, it publishes a weekly review of the arts, Figaro Litteraire, which is so packed with classified advertising that it has been dubbed Figaro Immobilier (Real Estate Figaro...
...lodged its "deep regrets and strongest protests" over the test, which it described as another example of China's "rowing against the stream of the world." Perhaps in tacit agreement, Communist newspapers in Warsaw and Paris downplayed the news as much as possible, but Paris' independent Le Figaro pronounced China "in the fullest sense of the word a nuclear power...
There was a time not too long ago when Pablo Picasso, 84, was known as something of a terror with women. Now he sounds somewhat terrified himself. In the past, he told an old photographer friend in an interview for Paris' Figaro Litteraire, "the model was nude, without defense. We could paint her, draw her or do anything else with her. But today there exists a new race of women, and you don't know what to make of them." With that, Pablo pointed to a magazine photograph of a battalion of Israeli women soldiers marching with rifles...