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...Paris, the defendants' attorney ridiculed the charge, saying that "it would have made Francois I, Henri IV and Louis XV jealous." How so? (See THE WORLD...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Feb. 23, 1970 | 2/23/1970 | See Source »

...bull." So did Roger's attorney, Genevieve Aiche, 27, a pretty redhead. "Permit me to be skeptical," she said. "Eighteen assaults in one hour, even perpetrated by two men in relay, seem to me to be pure myth. It would have made Francois I, Henri IV and Louis XV jealous, and they were Kings of France. After all, where is the woman who, after 18 assaults, would have the effrontery to complain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Peerless Performance | 2/23/1970 | See Source »

French Philosopher Henri Bergson identified as laughable "something mechanical incrusted upon the living"-his somewhat pedantic phrase for the essential dualism of life. Civilization, said Bergson, unfolds so rapidly that its creator, man, is hard put to keep up. As a result, both culture and language are full of outdated forms. When man is abruptly made aware of them, he responds with chastened or chastening laughter. Why do yesterday's fashions invariably strike us as comic? Because, Bergson thought, they expose the ludicrousness of all fashion-an effort by a creature, born naked, to wear and animate his wardrobe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Mystery of Laughter | 2/9/1970 | See Source »

...Henri Perrin, 27 year-old semi-successful rive gauche painter, draws in chalk on the sidewalk of the Boulevard Saint Michel that he will fast until all the killing is stopped...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: The FutureTea Leaves and Taurus | 1/5/1970 | See Source »

...PERENNIAL success of Hitchcock at the box office shows fear to be a popular commodity. In the American film world, shock and suspense are synonymous with Hitchcock. In France, the leading master of fear is Henri-Georges Clouzot...

Author: By Theodore Sedgwick, | Title: The MoviegoerThe Wages of Fear | 10/30/1969 | See Source »

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