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More than Beaujolais or Bordeaux or their passionately loved franc, the illicit love affair has always held a special place in the hearts of Frenchmen. The magnificent Château de Chenonceaux is Henri II's tribute to his mistress, Diane de Poitiers. French authors and artists-Emile Zola and Bonnard, for example-have immortalized their mistresses in their art. For the past 18 years the popular daily newspaper France Soir has run an illustrated serial titled "Famous Love Affairs." And now comes a bestselling survey of 93 French males entitled The Sexual Behavior of the Married...
...claims to have found one couple who learned to make love in a tiny Citroën "Deux Chevaux" auto-after they persuaded the man's dog to remain in the back seat. Serious social scientists are not sure that Baroche interviewed a sufficiently wide variety of Frenchmen to reach any valid conclusions. Still, he talked to enough to find one man who asked, "How does it happen that I have never deceived my wife?" then shrugged and answered his own question: "I don't want to complicate my life. I must be the exception that proves...
...franc last month won wide admiration as a model of deft financial maneuvering. But its ultimate success depends on the follow-through-whether or not France can curb inflation before the trade ad vantages of a cheaper franc are frittered away in rising prices. Last week, as Frenchmen returned to work after their August holiday, the Pompidou government greeted them with news of austerity to come. Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing announced an at tack on inflation that will employ nearly every fiscal and monetary weapon available to modern governments...
...price freeze until Sept. 15 that the Pompidou government decreed (TIME, Aug. 22) is proving, as expected, difficult to enforce. The government has only 2,100 inspectors to watch for illegal price increases, which Frenchmen sardonically call la valse des etiquettes (the price-tag waltz). The inspectors must police hundreds of thousands of retail establishments; the number of shoe stores alone is over seven times the total number of inspectors. Of the first 618 stores checked by inspectors in the Paris area, some 150 had raised their prices illegally...
...place within the proper social milieu. During the recent French election, Presidential Candidate Georges Pompidou had to combat rumors that his lively wife had taken part in several wild parties tossed by the rich-hip pie jet setters of Saint-Tropez. Whether or not the charges were true, many Frenchmen were displeased, partly because Madame Pompidou had consorted with people who were not her kind - a social rather than a moral misstep. In Japan, where women are emerging from second-class citizenship, politicians are accustomed to entertaining guests with bar girls hired for the occasion. Last winter, Premier Eisaku Sato...