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...found in England only because it was exported there from France in 1194. A father in Normandy wanted to call his daughter Kelig, which he claimed was a perfectly good Breton name. Not so, ruled the Ministry of Justice, which imposed on her the correct Breton feminine diminutive of Michel-Mikelaig...
...electric curlers, rollers, sprays, creams, nets, wigs, wiglets, switches, and six varieties of scissors) to run up massive overweight charges. They do not lose money. Kenneth, for instance, charges $100 an hour or $500 a day for a house call. Alexandre gets $11 for just a wash and set, Michel Kazan $6 for snipping a lock...
...best shotputters, and the high jump has been a Russian specialty ever since Valery Brumel appeared on the scene. Milers come from everywhere. The last four world record holders, in order, have been a Yorkshireman, an Australian, a New Zealander and a Frenchman-and last week France's Michel Jazy found himself confronted with two new challengers who could hardly be more dissimilar. In Wanganui, New Zealand, East Germany's Jurgen May beat Kenya's Kipchoge Keino by a bare .3 sec. in the second fastest mile ever run: 3 min. 53.8 sec., just...
...author perhaps more richly deserves a new appraisal than Michel de Montaigne. Four centuries have passed since, pent in his tower study outside Bordeaux, he set down the Essays that were to transport his name to literature's firmament. Immured in an age that was largely brutal, incurious and ignorant, he managed to convey a message and a spirit so lively and civilized that they have come down through the centuries virtually unscathed...
...English-speaking world will have to wait for a biography that is worthy of the man. It can do worse, while waiting, than to browse in Frame's excellent translation of the Essays, whose subject is Michel de Montaigne...