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...DIED. FRAN??OISE SAGAN, 69, French author who at age 19 wrote the best-selling 1954 novel Bonjour Tristesse, about seduction and infidelity among the idle rich, after she failed her exams at the Sorbonne in Paris; of heart and lung failure; in Normandy, France. Born Fran??oise Quoirez, she took her pen name from a character in Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. She also wrote 30 lesser known novels as well as short stories, plays and movie screenplays...
...display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in "Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the 18th Century" starting on April 29. The exhibition, curated by Harold Koda and Andrew Bolton, explores the interplay of dress and decorative arts in France from 1750 to 1789. It was inspired by Jean-Fran??ois de Bastide, author of the erotic novella The Little House. He believed seriously expensive and elaborate furniture and clothing were not meant to be just aesthetic eye candy; they were also used as tools of seduction. Is the snuffbox the next must-have accessory...
...easy to point to Sept. 11 as the watershed moment when America turned into a nation of nesters and began eating chicken potpies at home while wearing pearls and sweater sets. But, says Fran??oise Serralta of Peclers Paris, an international trend-forecasting agency, the shift really started earlier, in anticipation of the new millennium: "Sept. 11 only speeded up a reaction to what was already happening." The ongoing terrorist threat, sluggish economy and war in Iraq have helped fuel the thirst for nostalgia, but there are other factors at work...
...ultimate dust-up, a drama with more twists, turns, and subplots than the diary of a swooning 13-year-old. The North Country—the quirky community so close to the St. Lawrence River that most people on the radio parlent le fran??§ais—buzzed with the kind of everyone-knows-everyone gossip only small towns can produce. Not surprisingly, college hockey was the subject...
...record straight, FM decided to consult an expert: Oken Stroh, deli-meister at Cardullo’s Gourmet. Stroh maintains that lunar cheese is undoubtedly hard, like parmesan. Maybe a Gruyère, he muses, or a Comet (pronounced co-may, comme les fran??§ais). Then revelation strikes: Appenzeller, a firm, full-flavored Swiss. Just the right texture and bouquet...