Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taken alive. With that, the scandal could no longer be suppressed. As the satiric Canard Enchainé, right or wrong, put it last week: "Figon committed suicide with a shot fired against him from point-blank range." De Gaulle's campaign opponents, François Mitterrand and Jean Lecanuet, demanded that the truth be told, flayed the Gaullists for trying to cover up the affair...
...they have a relative who emigrated to America and became a millionaire. A few are right. The rest provide employment for lawyers, archivists and private detectives-especially in France, where the search for several legacies has gone on for generations. None of them is more fabulous than that of Jean-Pierre Mallet, who, so the story goes, died childless in 1818 in Winooski, Vt., leaving behind properties that stretched from the shores of Lake Champlain all the way to Chicago...
...documents," she explained. "That's why I founded the union-to find the documents." The weary judge concluded that the next step in the case would be a psychiatric examination. But this was not likely to discourage all the other Mallets. One scholar has concluded that the real Jean-Pierre Mallet was a French farmer who died not far from his birthplace in 1815, leaving an estate of $290-but Princess Ayoubi's reaction was probably typical. "Eh bien," she shrugged, "if it wasn't that Jean-Pierre Mallet who went to America, it was obviously another...
Giacometti continued to work be cause, said he, "I am curious to know why I fail." None of his human figures, he felt, captured what he saw. None could-for what he saw was the fleeting essence of man. It is no surprise that Jean-Paul Sartre celebrated him as the ideal existentialist artist. Somewhere be hind the plaster contours of his stick figures lay the truth of man's mortality. "I know," said Giacometti, "with absolute, unshakable certainty that I can never succeed in reproducing what I see, even if I live to be a thousand...
Male Companion. Movies about sex, like sex itself, thrive best on the illusion that an air of joyous improvisation covers a multitude of sins. In Companion, Director Philippe de Broca (The Five-Day Lover, The Love Game) again sets light-footed Jean-Pierre Cassel to dancing from escapade to escapade as inoffensively as a hummingbird buzzing the phlox...