Word: oublier
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...Christmas shopping list, bringing sudden rewards to the hitherto unrecognized authors that it honors. Though Marcel Proust and Andre Malraux were among past winners, the jury-whose average age is 74-always picks a book that has enough pizazz for the mass reader. With its explicit sexual passages, Oublier Palerme could sell as many as 400,000 copies in France this year, will doubtless be quickly translated into English and other languages...
...Proud. As Novelist François Nourissier sees it, one reason that Oublier Palerme won was that Mile. Charles-Roux "comes from a well-known family and had no enemies on the jury." His remark suggests the intrigue that occurs in the demimonde of belles-lettres over the some 1,850 French literary prizes that are awarded each year. Nourissier, himself a former Vogue editor who resigned because Mile. "Charles-Roux was fired, captured this year's less lucrative but prestigious Académic Franchise prize for his Line Histoire Française a nostalgic reverie in which...
...revoir parmi vous certains de mes anciens eleves de Paris, puis de faire connaissance avec les diplomes de l'ecole, enfin de me trouver aumilieu de cette jeunesse que j'aime tant et a laquelle je suis toujours tres devoue. Je n'aurai garde dans ma reconnaissance d'oublier M. le President, M. le Doyen, aussi que mes chers collegues, les professeurs de Harvard, et aussi mes confreres architects d'avoir repondu a votre aimable invitation; j'y vois de leur part un nouveau temoignage de sympathie auquel je suis tres sensible. Je termine, messieurs, en faisant les voeux...
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