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French sentiment toward monarchies has eased noticeably over the past 200 years. So no heads turned, or fell, when the far-from-royalist President of France, Socialist François Mitterrand, 66, invited neighboring Monaco's Prince Rainier, 59, and his daughter Princess Caroline, 26, to the Elysée Palace for lunch. Caroline looked cheerful and radiant in what was her first official outing since the death of her mother Princess Grace last year. Monaco officials say she will be seen more and more at her father's side, assuming the ceremonial role that her mother once...
BORN. To Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier, 31, portly President for Life of Haiti, and Michele Bennett Duvalier, 31: their first child, a son and heir apparent to the dictatorship set up by his grandfather Papa Doc; in Port-au-Prince. Name: François Nicolas Jean-Claude. Weight...
FICTION: Bech Is Back, John Updike George Mills, Stanley Elkin Ironweed. William Kennedy ∙ On the Black Hill, Bruce Chatwin ∙ The Painted Lady, Françoise Sagan Shiloh and Other Stories, Bobbie Ann Mason
...years ago that Bonjour Tristesse, a short novel by an 18-year-old schoolgirl, Françoise Sagan, sold a record-breaking 1.5 million copies in France. Translations soon topped bestseller lists throughout Europe and in the U.S. A tale of worldly intrigue and adolescent sex, the book caught the public fancy as much for the author's precocious sophistication as for her fine-grained, sensuous prose style. Since then, literary fashions, linguistic games and critical theories have reduced much of French fiction to an esoteric art, impermeable to the intellect, oppressive to the spirit and absolutely...
...manners of France's Beautiful People who inhabit the milieu of high fashion, advertising and show business. Those of her novels that appeared in the U.S., such as A Certain Smile, Aimez-Vous Brahms? and The Unmade Bed, came across as high-class pop fiction à la française with predictable complements of cuckolds, betrayed mistresses and golden-eyed lovers...