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Whether the applicant is a Frenchman eager to marry before departing for Africa the next day, or a man and woman anxious to legitimize their newborn child, Bouvet obliges by donning his tricolor sash and officiating at a town-hall ceremony. "Mind you, I don't marry just anyone," says Bouvet. "First, I have a chat with the couple. If I feel something's wrong, then I refuse to marry them. But red tape shouldn't be allowed to thwart love and marriage...
Next to his liver, the Frenchman's chief preoccupation is his language. One of the main reasons why Charles de Gaulle blocked British membership in the Common Market for nearly a decade was his fear that French would lose its place as the premier language on the Continent...
...foil, Harvard All-American Tom Keller took all three of his bouts and in the process improved his season's mark to 21-3. Perhaps the most exciting match of the night was Keller's first round bout against Guy Pommares, a swashbuckling Frenchman who started playing with swords...
Ready is the word. Before the season began, Béranger allowed that his hope was "to have a Frenchman and a French girl win the World Cup." As of last week, with four French skiers in the top five places in both the women's and men's divisions, his hope seemed a certainty...
...Asked if he expected to stay in office until 1983. the year a presumptive second seven-year term would end. Pompidou tossed off a double allusion when he replied: "As you like it." He may have been referring to Shakespeare's comedy. But as a Frenchman, he might also have had in mind a 19th century play of the same name by Alfred de Musset...