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...wintertime London. The cult of sorrow and misery even took the spotlight from Jean-Paul Sartre's Existentialists (TIME, Jan. 28), as staid Figaro gave it tongue-in-cheek recognition: "No school ever chose its hour better than this one. Every French citizen is an unknowing Dolorist.And Monsieur Gouin [France's Premier], perhaps, is also...
...civilized humanity. . . ." His discovery: "just about the best restaurant in a muddled world." He excitedly reported "a foie gras such as I have not tasted since Hitler attacked Poland, an omelette Perigoitrdine not to be found anywhere else in Europe, a brochette de rognons that would knock Monsieur Brillat-Sava-rin's eye out. . . ." He kept the location secret, said he, because "officially speaking, it is not correct to eat well today in this country. . . ." His happy conclusion: "Whatever has happened to France . . . she has not lost the art of cooking...
...Quel malheur . . . another one," sighed Monsieur René Besniers. A jeep had just crashed into the window of his Paris pharmacy. Since Druggist Besniers opened his shop at the teeming corner of rue Dunkerque and rue du Faubourg Poissonière 36 years ago, 108 different vehicles have hurtled into his store...
Today her most popular song is Bonjour Monsieur Saint-Pierre, about a young Parisian girl who, having died, pleads at the gates of heaven...
...Sparrow's voice, low and husky, was in character too. After she had sung, with a weary little smile, Un monsieur me suit dans la rue ("A gentleman follows me down the street"), there was a long, silent pause, then a storm of applause. The Sparrow accepted the outburst as her rightful due. For had she not been, for ten years, one of Paris' most sought-out chanteuses? Now, with les saies boches gone and postwar visitors in Paris, her songs of sacred and profane love were making her an international favorite...