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...guru. In the sidewalk cafés of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, crew-cut young French students hotly dispute the exact degree of "despair" advocated by Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre or his former disciple Albert Camus. Sometimes the great men themselves appear at the Café de Flore or the Deux Magots. When they do not, their movements, habits, tastes and idiosyncrasies are reported as if they were movie stars. By others, who call them "the mandarins." the French intellectuals may often be disregarded; but they are never ignored...
...gunnery at Fontainebleau. France. In Paris in the '20s, he became friendly with Pridi Phanomyong, a Siamese political-science student who lived in the same pension; the two were destined to become political Siamese twins for the next 30 years. At the tables of the Café de Flore and the Deux Magots on the Left Bank, Phibun, Pridi and fellow expatriates plotted a revolution at home. Their schemes worked out successfully in the revolution of 1932, when King Prajad-hipok signed Siam's first constitution, which Pridi wrote...
...existentialist." An under-tipped taxi driver would curse: "Espèce d'existentialiste." Existentialism became a familiar tourist attraction, like the Folies-Bergere. Sartre, increasingly successful and respectable, occasionally deplored the popularizations of his fad-he even felt compelled to move out of his favorite café, the Flore, to escape the tourists' vulgar stares. Last week existentialism took its ultimate step to solid respectability. The dignified Collège de France elected Existentialist Philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty-an old school friend of Sartre's-to its coveted chair of philosophy...
...business-suited bureaucrats in a chain of command that goes on into infinity. The role of the avenging Bacchantes, who tore Orpheus apart in the ancient myth, is now taken by a seedy bunch of envious poets who gather in what looks like Paris' Café de Flore. When characters shuttle between this life and the next, they glide through mirrors-Cocteau's favorite symbol of the doorway to death ("Look at yourself in a mirror all your life, and you will see death at work like bees in a hive of glass...
...Glory. The three Davis followers were Anders Clarin, 37, a Swede who had spent the better part of his life in the import-export business until one day he got sick of filling out government forms and went to Paris (i.e., the Flore); Cameron Ewan, 19, who left Christ Church College, Oxford at 16 and put in time as a Liberal Party worker before getting into the world citizenship game; and Ruth Allanbrook, 23, the pretty daughter of a Boston business executive, who was studying art in Paris. The trio had hoped to find excitement in world citizenship; instead, they...