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Pinning the Blame. By its sheer size Hachette has given wing to the suspicions that its grand design includes a monopoly of everything printed in France. Detractors say that such independent newspapers as Le Figaro and L'Aurore, which have formed their own distribution apparatus, are allowed to do so largely because Hachette fears the political repercussions involved in any attempt to squeeze them...
...cramped Comique on the ground that it was too frivolous for France's official opera house. Menotti did his best to trim and squeeze his long work, but it came out looking starved instead. Paris was rightfully unimpressed ("Distressing, extremely poor, bordering on indigence," wrote Le Figaro), but The Last Savage will have another go at civilization in January. The Metropolitan Opera will present its New York premiere in the grand manner that the composer intended-hopefully with a well-doctored libretto and score...
...took Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchias four years to get his Marriage of Figaro past the censors; but when he did, in 1784, France loved it. By documenting the frivolity of the ancien regime, his work contributed heavily to the unpopularity of France's decaying aristocracy...
...story traces the acrobatics of an oh so eighteenth century count with a weakness for a winsom lady-in-waiting. Matters are confused considerably by the marked maid's dashing fiancee, Figaro, and inevitably by the lascivious count's peppery countess. When the bedclothes settle, the audience finds the proper pairs in the proper places, and a host of villagers send the couples merrily on their connubial ways...
...dailies that have succeeded in bucking the general decline offer lessons that the rest of Paris' papers are studying with interest. La Croix, a Catholic paper with 117,000 circulation, jumped sharply because of its coverage of the Ecumenical Council. While third-ranked Le Figaro held its own at 409,000 with its sober, comprehensive reporting, fourth-ranked L'Aurore trained its sights on a specific audience-the returnees from Algeria-and managed to boost circulation to 390,110. At Le Monde (193,017), austere Editor Hubert Beuve-Mery, 61, immerses his readers in a sea of small...