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By contrast, a Frenchman who fails to help another when he can do so without risk is liable for up to five years in prison and a $3,000 fine. The law's rationale, explained Sorbonne Law Professor André Tunc, is that a bystander "participates in the murder...
This apotheosis of the castoff has had worldwide repercussions. Paris' famed Flea Market is no longer a romantic shambles reminiscent of The Beggar's Opera but is getting to be more and more like a shopping center. It even has a parking lot. Flea Market stalls now sell...
Disguised Farmers. Each weekend the De Gaulles go to their country retreat. The regularity of these visits is an invitation to assassins, and two attempts on the President's life have been made on the route between Paris and Colombey. De Gaulle is still the despair of his security...
If the vagaries of taste can be cruel, they can also be marvelously kind. When the delicate Girl Reading, by Jean Honore Fragonard, appeared on the velvet block, the Parke-Bernet audience suddenly burst into applause. After some whispered consultation with Director John Walker of the National Gallery in Washington...
In his own lifetime, Honore Victorin Daumier was known chiefly as a relentless political cartoonist, but a few contemporaries appreciated him for the gifted painter that he was. "Daumier," wrote the poet Baudelaire, "knows all the absurd misery, all the folly, all the pride of the small bourgeois-this type...