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...Personal Agreement." Some 55 hours after the kidnaping, a passer-by found Eric abandoned at 12:55 one morning, weeping on the sidewalk in front of a bistro near the Arc de Triomphe. The bistro erupted in a fine frenzy of Gallic tears and cheers. The cops were summoned, and then Eric's father, who swept up his son in a blanket and carried him home. He had, reported Roland Peugeot, paid the kidnapers some ransom money, but would not say where or how much. "It was a personal agreement, and I am the only one to know what...
...Beverly Hills Hotel, flustering her own pressagents, for whom she has little need, and chattering over a beige-colored phone in her serviceable English and sparkling French. Her robust charm, the shaggy, Chablis-tinted hair over soft, wide-set eyes, and the generous mouth that twists with Gallic wit as the words come tumbling out, all add up to a sultry but utterly unphony femininity that makes her, at 39, far sexier than most of Hollywood's chromium-plated babes. She describes her own quality perfectly as she discusses Room at the Top, in which she brought calm skill...
Gourmets and plain expense-account diners in Manhattan last week were confronted with a tragedy as grave as the separation of sauce hollandaise-an eruption of Gallic temperament that temporarily closed Le Pavilion, considered by many the best French restaurant in the U.S. and by all check signers, among the most expensive (consommé: $2). In a fit of pique, Pierre Franey quit as Le Pavilion's head chef after Owner Henri Soulé demanded that he cut five hours of overtime off the work week of the kitchen staff in order to slash the operating expenses...
...consummate kiss-and-tell artists. Over the centuries, they have told all in diaries, letters, memoirs, novels and the social chronicles of boudoir, salon and brothel. With one eye on the lofty mystery of love and the other hovering at the keyhole, British Author Nina Epton scans the Gallic love parade in an amusing though helter-skelter review...
...around the country's chief ethnic and religious groups: the Arabs, Berbers, Europeans, Jews and Mozabites (an austere Moslem desert sect). Instead of countrywide self-determination, in which the Arabs would clearly prevail, De Gaulle would be seeking some form of federation of semiautonomous communities-a kind of Gallic version of Britain's 1921 partition of Ireland...