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...first chain, named Croissanterie, was kneaded by Jean-Luc Bret, 34, a former marketing manager for one of France's largest breadmakers. His aim: to "seduce women and children who hate going into restaurants alone." Jean-Luc's rolls-horreur!-are dipped in chocolate or flavored with coffee or stuffed with bananas, Roquefort cheese, mushrooms and a dozen or so other fillings. They are delivered frozen to the stores, and thus come from the oven as mushy as supermarket bread. Even so, the Croissanteries sell 50,000 rolls a day, plus Seines of soft drinks and coffee...
Bret has established ten Croissanteries and plans to open ten more next year. He already faces stiff competition from at least five other would-be top-of-the-roll tycoons, notably Fashion Designer Michel Axel, who owns Croissant-Show (a Franglais pun on chaud, or hot). Jean-Luc is now planning to invade the U.S. and teach burgerphiles to live by fast and fancy bread alone...
...biggies: Queen will reign (how many times has that line been used?) at the Garden on Nov. 13 (remember what I said about the Garden...); Jean-Luc Ponty and the Marc-Almond Band will be at the Orpheum on Oct. 20; Kenny Loggins on the 21st; Weather Report...
MARRIED. Anna Karina, 38, ex-wife and protégée of France's New Wave film director Jean-Luc Godard, and Daniel Duval, 34, also a film director; she for the third time, he for the first; in La Garde-Freinet, France...
FRENCH LIBRARY--Jean-Luc Godard's Far From Vietnam, Friday at 5:30 and 8, 53 Marlborough...