Word: horreur
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...purse that came covered in jewels or made of fur, denim or cashmere and hung beneath the armpits of the world's most fashionable women - had to die. After all, they were allowed to live much longer than the laws of fashion usually allow. More than a season? Quelle horreur! Planned obsolescence is all well and good until something so perfect arrives on the scene - think of the pashmina. But now, the baguette's sell-by date has come. And to take its place is a tough-looking rival that could eat the baguette for breakfast...
...charm in her life-the daily trips to the boulangerie and weekly ones to the market, the occasional glass of vin rouge with some fresh p?t?, the tiled roofs and stone walls of the village itself-than many a millionaire in my great home state of Texas. (Quelle horreur! the Puritan mind exclaims, a welfare mother with a glass of wine! In France, however, even welfare mothers are entitled to the occasional vin rouge.) And my impoverished sister-in-law, unlike so many of those millionaires, knows, in the words of Guy de Maupassant, how "to be charming with...