Word: frenchman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sisters in love with the same man not two men with one woman, and here the nationalities are French and English and not French and German. But there is the same prewar period and the same complicated triangle of inter-relationships Claude Roc (Jean-Pierre Leaud), a timorous young Frenchman of a slowly eroding fortune and an over-fond mother meets a young English girl. Anne Brown, visiting Paris. The two become friends, and in time Claude makes a reciprocal visit to the Brown home in Wales. There he gradually, but inevitably, falls in love with Muriel. Anne's younger...
Although every true Frenchman is popularly supposed to have a mistress, some 70% of the husbands polled and 90% of the wives asserted that they had never been unfaithful to their spouses. Moreover, 50% of both sexes regard adultery as "unforgivable." On the average, the French women declared that they had been to bed with no more than two men in their lives, while men admitted to intercourse with less than a dozen women, including prostitutes. The myth of the widespread cinq-à-sept or cocktail-hour dalliance was also exploded; 82% of both sexes said that they make love...
...Frenchman of 1972 is apparently about as unfaithful to his spouse as was the American male of Kinsey's day. On the other hand, 28% of the American women interviewed by Kinsey's team declared that they had been unfaithful, compared with only 10% of the French women. As the French report asserts, "the oft-advanced theory of declining morality is not borne out"-at least not in France...
EQUALLY popular with tourists and Parisians, Le Drugstore, located near the Arc de Triomphe on the Champs-Elysées, was as zany a bit of pseudo Americana abroad as a Frenchman could have conceived. Opened by Advertising Tycoon Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet in 1958, Le Drugstore offered an expensive boutique, books and magazines, a restaurant that served hamburgers and banana splits, and a department for prescription drugs. The formula worked so well that Paris soon had a flock of "Drugstores...
What's in a name? In France, plenty of legal trouble-if the name happens to be one that French law finds distasteful. Last week every Frenchman with an infelicitous name seemed to be protesting the case of Gérard and Paulette Tro-gnon, a middle-class couple from the town of Le Mée-sur-Seine southeast of Paris. Recently a three-judge court in nearby Melun ruled that the Trognons could not bestow their name on their three-year-old foster son Philippe. The court did not object to the couple but only to their...