Word: henri
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Enlarging her niche in film history, Gloria Swanson presided in Paris last week over a salute to her career at Henri Langlois' hallowed Cinémathèque Française. The first night coincided with Gloria's 75th birthday, a statistic proved ridiculous when she appeared at the birthday party in a slinky blue and green diagonally striped gown. After blowing out the candles on her cake, Chicago-born Swanson told the crowd assembled at the cinema museum that she had always felt at home in France. Why? "Because with my Swedish ancestors I surely have...
...prayer assemblies have been started in eight dioceses in France, and will almost certainly spread to more. Advocates of the practice, like Bishop Henri Derouet of Sées in Normandy, recognize that people worship best in their own communities. "If they have to go some other place to Mass, they do not feel at home," says Derouet, "and eventually they stop going." There are critics, of course. While lay-led Catholic services are commonplace in mission countries like Africa, and have become popular in priest-short areas such as East Germany, some of the French clergy still see them...
...author's reckoning, highest above the salt would have to be Henri d'Orleans, Count of Paris, an amateur pilot and accomplished horseman, whose royal line remained unbroken for 1,200 years. Here, though, a slight problem arises, since the 65-year-old count has a formidable rival in the person of Louis Jerome Victor Emmanuel Leopold Marie, Prince Napoleon Bonaparte, 58, who re-established his clan's regal credentials as a doughty officer in the French Resistance during World...
Opposition spokesmen were indignant. Said Radical-Socialist Senator Henri Caillavet: "Three weeks ago, I said on television that if the government leaders didn't watch out, we would soon find ourselves in a police state. Now, apparently, we are in one." Le Canard, however, did not lose its satirical cool. On the front page of its "Watergaffe" issue, the editors jokingly boasted: "Read Le Canard Enchainé, the most listened-to newspaper in France...
...Henri Gault and Christian Millau have much in common. Both are 44-year-old Sunday cooks and year-round gourmets-curiously slight of paunch considering their present trade-who once worked as reporters on the now defunct Paris Presse. The solidest bond between the two is the joy they share in debunking the culinary canons of their fellow Frenchmen. They condone serving red wine with fish, accept Israelite gras as only "slightly inferior" to the product of Strasbourg and advise housewives to shorten the cooking hours of those long, loving, simmering stews. They have even dared to question butter...