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French aristocrats, such as Prince Michel de Bourbon de Panne and Comte Jean de Beaumont, father of one of the International Set's standout beauties, Vi-comtesse Jacqueline de Ribes, set the pace for French elegance. One of the biggest wigs among the bourgeois is Paul-Louis Weiller, who has some 15 houses, which he very generously lends...
...Instead, it must deal with things-i.e., objects-and Robbe-Grillet has brought out four books that pretend to do just that. Grouped more or less willingly around him are about a dozen writers, of whom the most celebrated are Nathalie Sarraute (Portrait of a Man Unknown) and Michel Butor (A Change of Heart...
From "He" to "You." In the interests of fictional reform, Michel Butor, 35, has rather expansively declared that an author should create a new technique for each new subject. Butor's latest technique produced Mobile, an indescribably dull account of 50 U.S. states, presented as weird collections of lists, and typographical eccentricities which owe something to both John Dos Passos and E.E. Cummings. One of his earliest books, Passing Time, was a Robbe-Grilletesque effort to scramble time sequences. The hero keeps a double-entry diary in which accounts of what happened as far back as seven months...
...abandoned me. I've worked too hard for what I've been given in return. I can't spend my life in restaurants and festivals begging funds." He scraped along on occasional television appearances, started (but never finished) four films that he financed himself. Then Producers Michel and Alexander Salkind (a father and son team; Michel produced Greta Garbo's first film outside Sweden, the team an occasional epic in recent years) offered him a walk-on in Taras Bulba. Though he needed the money, Welles indignantly refused, trumpeting, "Are you crazy? I am Taras Bulba...
...loves orchids and sables, pilots a fast Lancia. She writhes with impatience at official occasions when her position restrains her from doing the twist. Asked her opinion of France's then Premier Michel Debré after the Ivory Coast's Independence Day Ball, Thérèse allowed that "He's nice," but added that "he doesn't cha cha half as well" as another statesman at the party. Frenchmen, who call her the Ivory One and see her as the forerunner of a new, Europe-influenced African woman, delight in her exuberant, ultrafeminine...