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Though Deauville has been socially registered since Emperor Napoleon III learned the breast stroke there in mid-eigteenth century, it has remained France's most fashionable resort as a result of diligent handling by 42-year-old François André, France's biggest hotel operator. In addition to owning Deauville lock, stock and wine barrel, André owns the casinos, two hotels at Cannes and two hotels at La Baule as well as the biggest hotel at Le Touquet...
...keep his guests in a free-spending mood, he fills the Casino theater with serious musicians (this week: Pianist Artur Rubinstein) and music-hall stars such as Charles Trenet and Jacqueline François, sets up an elaborate schedule of regattas, racing events and polo matches. To promote elegance, André refuses to allow even the biggest losers inside the Casino's Gilded Hall unless they are wearing evening clothes (black tie), once turned away heroic General Pierre Koenig. Explained an attendant: "Sorry, General, but orders are orders." Said sport-shirted Koenig: "Ah, yes. I understand orders...
...CERTAIN SMILE (128 pp.)-Françoise Sagan-Dutton...
...favorite pose of the very young is to abandon hope because they still have so much. One of the best-paid literary practitioners of this kind of premature despair is Paris' intellectual gamin, Françoise Sagan, just turned 21. As readers who pushed the sales of Bonjour Tristesse past the million mark know, Sagan wears her world-weary rue with a spicy difference. In her novels, sin triumphs over everything but syntax. This high-styled amorality led one French critic to sum up her work as "classicism in panties...
...rueful summing up: "Well, what did it matter? I was a woman who had loved a man. It was a simple story." Being sad and wise and a little tired of it all in this continental way has a certain wayward charm. It seems to appeal so strongly to Françoise Sagan that she may never get around to striking any other pose...