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...four-character film, the plot is convoluted. Jereme, an about-to-be-married diplomat vacationing in Annecy, by chance meets with an old writer friend, Aurora. She is living with a twice-married Frenchwoman and her two daughters in their bourgeois summer home, while trying to find some incident to spark her writing talent. Jerome mentions to her that he is getting married out of convenience; he's lived with his Lucinde (the picture shown is of a young Jeanne Moreau) at various times in the last six years without losing pleasure in her and as he no longer enjoys...
...Harry Goldberg, head librarian at the American Library in Paris, is married to a Frenchwoman and has two French-born children. He wants his children to retain their U.S. citizenship, but sees no way it can be done. "With the kind of job I have and the sort of income," says Goldberg, "it is financially impossible for me to send my children to the U.S. for five years so they can remain American citizens...
...practical joke," fumed Dramatist Marcel Pagnol, 75. "It is not serious," snapped Novelist Jules Remains, 85. "Déplacé, indecent and outrageous," sputtered Novelist Maurice Druon, 52. What shocked the "immortals" was the fact that a Frenchwoman had been accepted as a candidate for election to the all-male Academic Francaise for the first time since Cardinal Richelieu founded the pantheon of intellectuals 335 years...
Obediently, Madame returned to France with her husband in 1796, after the establishment of the Directorate. "I felt no pleasure at returning," she wrote, then complained no more. As Napoleon rose to Emperor, she settled down to a Frenchwoman's perennial business-being charming where it does the most good, come revolution or restoration...
Last week a Frenchwoman was up and doing well with just such a radioactive source in her chest. In an operation at Hopital Broussais in Paris, Drs. Paul Laurens and Armand Piwnica had successfully performed the first human implant of an atomic pacemaker in Suzanne Peragin, 58. If all goes well, the device should sustain her without further operations for the rest of her life, giving her heart a boost to 65 beats per minute whenever it begins to falter...