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TITLE Chairman since 2000 of Clarins, the company his father, Jacques, founded in 1954.
For brutal honesty on the causes of Africa's woes, it's hard to beat Chinua Achebe's The Trouble with Nigeria. Written during the country's rowdy 1983 election campaign, the book, just 68 pages long, is an outpouring of frustration at Nigeria's problems. You only have to...
Waly Diabira pats the cover on his bed in the cramped fifth-floor room he shares with two men in a red-brick dormitory building for immigrants near Paris' Left Bank. "My father slept on this same bed, in this same room, for many years," he says. In 1950, his...
The past couple of weeks saw the mighty French republic brought to its knees by little more than a mob of angry teenagers. In characteristically French style, President Jacques Chirac hopelessly tried to reassure his countrymen with lofty rhetoric: “Whatever our origins, we are all the children...
From his birthplace in Calvinist Geneva, Jean-Jacques Rousseau migrated toward the hub of Enlightenment-era intellectual activity in Paris. Now, in a new biography, Bernbaum Professor of Literature Leo Damrosch returns Rousseau to center stage, where he belongs. Like a swift alpine stream, Damrosch’s writing is...