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...high ideals of revolution embodied in the constitution of 1917, it has turned increasingly to the power of the army to put down revolts in the impoverished countryside and to quell demonstrations of dissent. As one student leader puts it: "The constitution has been violated more times than a Parisian streetwalker...
Piling Up Trouble. Citroën has long been heading toward a classic industrial disaster. Founded by a flamboyant Parisian named Andre Citroën in 1919, the company has been controlled for the past 30 years by the Michelins, who generally consider autos an adjunct to their profitable tire business. Citroën's two basic models, the tinny, 20-year-old 2 CV and the 13-year-old, bullet-nose DS, were highly successful in the 1950s and early 1960s, when automanic Frenchmen would wait months for a car. That situation no longer exists, but Pierre Bercot...
...spine-crushing lack of charm that characterize the system. Not so in Par is, where ever since World War II the Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens has been enthusiastically refurbishing the Métro. Last week the latest renovated subway station opened, this one at the Louvre. Parisian eyes popped...
...controlled panic, Annie launches herself into the kind of picaresque Parisian tour beloved of Vassar girls in their junior year. Boys woo her, flics pursue her; an older man takes her to a boite. Eventually, she and a cellist make beautiful music together on his pallet. When the sun comes up, Annie returns to bid farewell to her aunt and to her childhood...
Partly because of his obsession with privacy-he refuses to reveal his first name, rarely gives interviews, shuns Parisian literary circles-Cioran is hardly better known in Europe than in the U.S. Yet there are impressive testimonials to his significance. Critic Susan Sontag, in her introduction to The Temptation to Exist, calls him "the most distinguished figure writing today in the tradition of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Wittgenstein." And Nobel prizewinning poet, Saint-John Perse, hails Cioran as "one of the greatest French writers to honor our language since the death of Paul Valery. His lofty thought...