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CHANSONS GAILLARDES (Vogue). Frenchmen have been writing naughty lyrics since the dawn of civilization, and Colette Reynard here sings some of the most memorable ones, beginning with the 17th century...
Confronted with a menu offering him the choice of "Le Wimpy," "Le Super Wimpy," "Le Wimpy King Size" or "Le Super Wimpy King Size"-all hamburgers-a Frenchman might be expected to cry out for a double cognac and forget about lunch. In fact, more and more Frenchmen are gobbling a snack and forgoing a leisurely feast at lunchtime. The man leading the assault on gastronomical tradition is Jacques Borel, 39, proprietor of 107 snack bars and cafeterias in Paris...
There were jittery calligraphs, concentric circles, anxious labyrinths and hysterical lines, not to mention stickpin Indians, Uncle Sam sphinxes, and cats and dogs and question marks, all up on the wall. As Frenchmen filed through Paris' Galerie Maeght last week rubbernecking, chuckling and occasionally snorting, the scene seemed readymade for a Saul Steinberg cartoon. As a matter of fact, Steinberg probably will make a cartoon of it-it's his show...
...Avant-Garde. Supermarket availability at home has helped establish another trend: Frenchmen now drink more champagne than ever, last year bought 58.2 million bottles, or three-quarters of the output. The bigger champagne producers, however, are still leary about putting all their bottles in one basket, and they continue to cultivate the export market. Britain remains the biggest foreign buyer, with 5,181,185 bottles last year, but the U.S. is a fast-growing second, with 3,478,522 bottles. French champagne makers are unworried over competition from U.S. wines. "They are our avant-garde," says Robert Jean...
...with 104,976 bottles, Zambians the most austere, with only 1,344. Nowhere was the contrast more marked than in Viet Nam. South Viet Nam, with undoubted American help, drank up 63,242 bottles. North Viet Nam, however, ordered only 872, barely enough for some diplomatic receptions for visiting Frenchmen...