Word: francoise
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The visit was hastily planned and largely unwanted. There were no flashy motorcades, no wreath layings and no banquets. Yet from the moment that Polish Leader Wojciech Jaruzelski shook hands with French President Francois Mitterrand at Paris' Elysee Palace last week, he had achieved what he sought: the stamp of...
NOW. FOR those of you not mathematically inclined, this leaves Alice with one day a week to a) commute; b) recuperate; or c) (the correct choice) carry on an additional flirtation in Paris with a plastic surgeon (Francois Perrot) to whom she's a scrub nurse and whom she eventually...
That work consisted of more than 400 short stories, film scripts of his novel Fahrenheit 451 for Francois Truffaut and of Moby Dick for John Huston, TV adaptations of Bradbury tales, plus poems, articles and plays. By his early 20s, the son of an impoverished electrical lineman had begun to...
Four proud years ago, France's Socialist Party swept into power with a swaggering self-confidence that its ambitious programs for economic expansion and social welfare would usher in a new era of grandeur for the republic. Since then, however, the party has lost much of that self-assurance, as...
The French daily Le Monde called it Operation Seduction. Officials in the government of French President Francois Mitterrand referred to it as a "charm offensive." In Washington, a Reagan Administration official huffily described the four-day visit to France last week as "more Gucci diplomacy."