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...Michel Montignac ogles a slice of foie gras marinated in Cognac. He beams over a chocolate mousse swimming in lavender-flavored sauce and, closing his eyes, dreamily sniffs a glass of Bordeaux. Delicious, yes, but surely these rich offerings are as fattening as French food...
Mais non, says Montignac, who doesn't believe in worrying about calories. "Conventional low-calorie diets are among the great scientific swindles of the 20th century," he maintains. "We should sweep away scruples and allow our epicurean instincts full rein." Susan Powter would surely throw down her barbells, but such appealing heresy has made Montignac Europe's newest diet guru. His book Je Mange, Donc Je Maigris! -- I Eat, Therefore I Slim -- dominated France's best-seller lists for an unprecedented 106 weeks, selling 1.1 million copies and leading to translations in five other European countries and Japan...
Donkey Bones. More exciting to French diggers is the art-crammed neolithic cave at Montignac-sur-Vézère. Named after some donkey bones found near the surface, the cave was first explored in 1940 by schoolboys. A few pictures of it leaked out through Vichy (TIME, July 28, 1941), but detailed study had to wait until after the war. Last week scientific investigation was going full speed ahead...
Archeologists believe that the Montignac cave's deep, twisting chambers were occupied between 10,000 and 30,000 years ago by successive races of cave-dwelling men who covered its walls with many layers of spirited, colorful drawings. It will take years of hard work to trace the half-erased lines and chart the cave's long history...
...This phrase is an echo from the great cave at Altamira, Spain, where the Marquis of Sautuola first found and recognized prehistoric paintings in 1879. Altamira is commonly called "the Sistine Chapel of Magdelanian art," representing a Paleolithic culture about 10,000 years later than Montignac...