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...fainthearted French employ the services of airborne passeurs (roughly, smugglers), who take 1% of the money transmitted as a fee. Several times a week, for example, a single-engine Cessna from a field in Switzerland lands on a French meadow where cows are peaceably grazing. Awaiting it is a Frenchman, who gives the pilot a suitcase loaded with gold or cash. The plane returns to Switzerland; at the same time, the Frenchman proceeds to Switzerland with a few hundred francs in his pocket for the satisfaction of customs inspectors. Once across the border, he recovers his money from the pilot...
Like other modern poets (the Frenchman St.-John Perse, the Greek George Seferis), he has made a career as a professional diplomat. He was Mexico's Ambassador to India when he resigned from the diplomatic service for, in fact, the most political of reasons-to protest the killing of Mexican university students by soldiers and police in October...
...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...