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...becoming the 71st recipient of the Prix Goncourt, Laine joins a distinguished list of former winners that includes Proust, Malraux and Beauvoir. He also, however, removes his name from an equally distinguished list of former losers: Colette, Cocteau, Gide, Camus and Sartre. Novelist Françoise Mallet-Joris, a member of the Goncourt jury, defended its spotty record last week by pointing out that "we are judging a book by a young author who might have written only one or two earlier" -a process that is apparently as unreliable as judging a book by its cover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Prizes and Profiteroles | 12/2/1974 | See Source »

...next year or so Rochester enjoyed what Greene calls "the most creditable period" of his life, when he was able to watch the frivolous Court without sharing its decadence. But after his marriage to Elizabeth Mallet in 1667, he fast became the hellish rake at Court--the king's jester who was banished at least three times for poems about the king and his mistresses, such as "The History of Insipids...

Author: By Gregory F. Lawless, | Title: A Sort of Life | 11/18/1974 | See Source »

Wilmot graduated from Oxford in 1661, travelled in Europe for a few years and was immediately received into the king's Court upon his return in 1664. By the following spring he had already begun to make an infamous name for himself: he kidnapped Elizabeth Mallet, an heiress whom he was courting. Charles II sent Rochester to the Tower for this, his earliest offense, although it took only three weeks to appease the king and set the prankster free until his trial came up. War broke out with the Dutch, Rochester volunteered, and soon released himself from further punishment...

Author: By Gregory F. Lawless, | Title: A Sort of Life | 11/18/1974 | See Source »

...Gina Mallet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Word Games | 11/4/1974 | See Source »

...functional quarters in the suburbs, near Orly airport, and a giant commercial center called the Plateau Beaubourg will rise in place of the old vegetable stands. Last month there were demonstrations against plans for an expressway along the Left Bank. "Today for the first time within memory," says Etienne Mallet, urban-affairs critic for the daily Le Monde, "people are going into the streets to protest against new construction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Building a New Paris | 7/10/1972 | See Source »

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