Word: gallicly
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...been launched in an era of Gallic grandeur. From the moment that the France first slipped into the Loire estuary at St. Nazaire 14 years ago while French President Charles de Gaulle looked on, this ultimate luxury liner sailed the oceans as a glittering symbol of French elegance. A magnificent example of marine engineering, she was the longest (1,035 ft.) and one of the fastest (30 knots) passenger liners afloat. The service was superb (the ratio of passengers to crew was less than 2 to 1) and so was the food. The France's gourmet dining rooms, particularly...
Paris has been called la ville mere du scandale-the mother city of scandal. Few scandals seemed better spiced for its Gallic taste than the one that has become known as "the Daniélou affair...
...center parties that made indispensable contributions to Giscard's wafer-thin margin of victory. One of them was Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, 50, publisher of the weekly L 'Express and self-styled French new frontiersman, who after many years of unsuccessfully striving to project himself as a Gallic John Kennedy, has at last found a national role; as Giscard's Minister of Reform, a new post, he will have a chance to try out his long-advocated proposals for giving more power and authority to local and regional government. Jean Lecanuet, 54, another centrist leader with somewhat...
...blind spots. On drama, for example: "Tragedy must never have chairs on the stage. Tragic characters never sit down." And the Emperor's effort to abolish Europe's old aristocracy and nationalism, to create a unified Europe under the banner of French Enlightenment and Gallic law, failed to take into account the primitive, nearly mystical origins of national identities...
...feast at Manhattan's posh Four Seasons restaurant. One of France's premier chefs (helas, un homme), Paul Bocuse, whose Lyons restaurant bears his name as well as the Guide Michelin's esteemed three stars, flew over the day before the banquet burdened with such Gallic specialties as pate de foie gras, truffles, Mediterranean bass and goat cheese. Among the guests: Playwright Lillian Hellman, Couturiere Pauline Trigere, Journalist Sally Quinn, Author Marya Mannes, New York Times Op-Ed Page Editor Charlotte Curtis, Sculptor Louise Nevelson, Former New York City Consumer Affairs Commissioner Bess Myerson, and Boston-based...