Word: meilleur
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...Jeanne Calment, that's who. When the 122-year-old record holder died in France this month, the world's most famous record book held a stony silence on who the successor to the "world's oldest" title would be. Today they announced the winner: Marie-Louise Febronie Meilleur, a 116-year-old native of Quebec, whose birth certificate is stamped...
...intermediate category, The Best's Best French Cookbook is the 20th century's Great Book of French Cuisine by Henri-Paul Pellaprat. Francophiles know better. Le plus meilleur livre is the 19th century The Physiology of Taste by Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, with entries on the erotic properties of truffles and rules of exemplary dinners: "Let the number of guests not exceed twelve ... the men witty and not pedantic, the women amiable and not too coquettish; the dishes exquisite but few ... the signal to leave not before 11, and everyone in bed at midnight...
...woman Daniélou visited has remained as mysterious as the circumstances of his death. Her first name is unknown, though Canard calls her Mini. Only the gossipmongering scandal sheet Le Meilleur claimed to have talked with Mme. Santoni, who insisted that the cardinal's visit was entirely platonic. "He was fully dressed," she reportedly told the paper. "[He] collapsed after climbing the four stories to my flat." She seemed unimpressed by all the furor: "Too much fuss is being made about this quite unimportant affair...
Alain Delon, who established his reputation as Rocco in Rocco and His Brothers, turns in an impressive performance as the debonair murderer lusting for "le meilleur." The entire design to murder Phillipe develops unspoken in his eyes, where greed and hatred of a tormentor become obviously irresistible...
...three, though, Alain Delon, who established his reputation as Rocco in Rocco and His Brothers, is the most impressive as the debonair but homicidal protagonist lusting for "le meilleur." The entire design to murder Philippe develops unspoken in his eyes, where greed and hatred of a tormentor become obviously irresistible...
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