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Late one night in his Paris apartment, Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, editor of the weekly L'Express, got a polite phone call from a French policeman. Asked the cop: What time would Servan-Schreiber go to his office next day? Editor Servan-Schreiber, at 30 the wonder boy of...
Three times in his 62 years Jacques Lipchitz has had to rise from the ashes of disaster to pursue his career as a sculptor. When he was a youthful art student in Paris, his father, a Lithuanian contractor, lost all his money, told Jacques to give up and come home...
Flaubert's "Dictionary of Accepted Ideas" contains many of the author's observations of the superficial and Inane thought in the nineteenth century. Samples are printed below: (Translated by Jacques Barzun; New Directions, $2.00)
JACQUES SOUSTELLE National Assembly Paris
When a certified intellectual leads a long cheer for the U.S.-and moreover invites the jeers of his fellows by calling his book God's Country and Mine-it amounts to a conscious act of courage. French-born Jacques Barzun, 46, professor of history at Columbia University, has some...