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...have expanded into Carthage. Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba located his new official residence there, and some 60 high-ranking diplomats live near by. Hundreds of seaside villas have been built on the still unexcavated ruins that lie about 20 feet below the surface. Says Georges Fradier, a Frenchman who heads UNESCO'S "Save Carthage" mission in Tunis: "If the building boom goes on, Carthage will be really destroyed-this time for good. Nobody is going to demolish a new city in order to dig up an old city...
...tradition of the "night piece" runs back to the late 15th century, when Leonardo set down his precepts for painting dramatic firelit groups. Rembrandt in Holland and Caravaggio in Rome produced unforgettable examples of the genre. But the artist whose work is most intimately associated with candlelight was Frenchman: Georges de La Tour...
...Klaus Altmann (TIME, Feb. 14). Pompidou has been publicly and energetically demanding Altmann's extradition to France. Now the weekly L'Express has revealed that Pompidou, against the advice of his Minister of Justice, last November secretly granted a full pardon to another Lyon war criminal, a Frenchman named Paul Touvier...
...corpulent Frenchman steps on the scales, clocking 220 Ibs. "Pardon, M'sieur," says the clerk. "You cannot travel today. Even without your baggage you would put the Concorde over its weight limit...
...months working in Paris as a production manager for Kaufman & Broad to learn about the nuts, bolts and nails of building. After leaving, he borrowed $15 million from friends, got another $10 million from French banks and obtained building permits from local officials: "They would rather see a Frenchman get the contracts than some American giant," he says. Breguet also got a lift from French tax laws: to stimulate construction, the government has cut the corporate tax rate for new builders from 50% to 15% for their first seven years, provided they plow back their profits. Breguet formed...