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...onard neighborhood, a magnet for young professionals. Residents spend afternoons at the Angers Tennis Club and children ride their bicycles along manicured pathways. To avoid the formation of impoverished ghettos in Angers, the city's socialist officials have for years settled low-income families like that of Franck V.'s among far wealthier residents, and heavily subsidized their rent. Franck and Patricia conducted their trade from their three-bedroom apartment in a four-story building on Rue Maurice Pouzet. Customers came and went, but the neighbors never pried. Now, there is a sense of shame among residents at having failed...
...Franck Prevel/AP One of the accused outside the Angers court...
...Developed in France by top sommelier Franck Thomas and enologist Laurent Zanon, the Clef du Vin's alloy (the combination is a trade secret) acts as a catalyst to speed up the oxidization process. The metals are precisely gauged so that dipping the tool into a glass of wine for one second will mimic the effect of a year's aging. Dipping it for two seconds simulates the effect of two year's cellaring, and so on. The key does not leach into the wine, and therefore is not harmful to drinkers...
...coffee-drinking traditions - either standing up at the tabac or stretched out after a long lunch - head on. With its first outlet set to open early next year, the company is confident it can sell froth to the French. "France has a very special relationship with coffee," says Franck Esquerré, managing director of Starbucks Coffee France. "The country is a natural home for Starbucks." Sure. But the French café is also a natural home for the cigarette. Starbucks insists its non-smoking policy won't put off locals. But Jean-Marie Galut, a manager...
...behind the myth, and how he became who he is, to show the exceptional coherence of everything he's done." The show includes a raft of family-album pictures, memorabilia and snapshots of Cartier-Bresson as a PoW in World War II. "Luckily," says his wife, the photographer Martine Franck, "Henri kept almost everything," to which he adds: "I didn't keep anything. I just didn't throw anything away." The retrospective coincides with the publication of a weighty companion book and with the opening of the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, a permanent archive and exhibit center. "It was very...