Word: francoise
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Other works on display include Francois Boucher's "Mme. de Pompadour and her Toilet," Kirchner's "Self-Portrait with a Cat," the Egyptian "Stele of Ramses II," and the likenesses of such historical figures as Julius Caesar, Sophocles, Louis XIV, Nero, and Oliver Wendall Holmes.
Temperatures in Paris dropped to 10 degrees. At midweek a 5 1/2-inch snowfall turned the French capital into a winter fantasy land where students waged impromptu snowball fights and cross-country skiers trekked across the Champs de Mars near the Eiffel Tower. Following the lead of President Francois Mitterrand, who...
-- In France the scandal specialty for years has been covert mayhem committed by barbouzes, shadowy secret government agents with false beards or other disguises. The gem of these was surely the Greenpeace affair of 1985, in which two teams of French secret service frogmen blew up a trawler belonging to...
By Francois Maspero
It is with this paradox that journalist Francois Maspero describes his first novel, Cat's Grin. The tale of a thirteen-year-old boy who seeks his deported parents and missing brother during the upheaval of the French Liberation after the Second World War, Cat's Grin is about the...