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Cubes & Guitars. The show, in sum, is a mirror of modern French sculp ture. The son of a poor Parisian worker, Laurens began his career, after stud ies with a decorative sculptor, in a rundown house on a dead end Montmartre street. The year was 1911. Cub ism was in full flower, and Georges Braque lived only a few doors away...
Lacoste is much more than a shirtmaker. He is already enshrined in an athletic valhalla that Daughter Catherine may never reach. Son of a prosperous Parisian airplane-engine maker, Lacoste dropped out of mechanical engineering studies to play tennis. He played so well that he was twice Forest Hills and Wimbledon champion as well as three-time champion of France. He was a member of the only French team that ever won the Davis Cup (1927, with Jean Borotra, Henri Cochet and Jacques Brugnon as fellow team members). Lacoste played so fiercely that sportswriters dubbed him le Crocodile. When...
When aerial hijackers delivered Moise Tshombe to an Algerian jail this month, his wife turned to one of the few men who might have saved her husband from extradition to the Congo-and almost certain death. Parisian Lawyer René Edmond Floriot, 64, faced appalling odds: the Congolese had already convicted Tshombe of not only treason but also murder and robbery. With eloquence, Floriot contended that the Congolese had actually amnestied Tshombe last fall. But last week he lost...
Françoise Mallet-Joris writes in the tradition of Émile Zola. Her plots are complex and thickly populated, and her characters move up and down through the floors of French society like a gilt-and-glass Parisian elevator-and, often, at about the same speed...
...written excellent books on New York and Mexico, and Paris is even better. The chapters on hotels, restaurants, neighborhoods, entertainment and landmarks are complete and reliable. The section on shopping moves up and down the streets, number by number. Even better than these conscientious compilations are brief essays on Parisian institutions and habits, sights and sounds. On the Paris radio: "You might hear a physics lecture surrounded by splinters of electronic music, or a description of the circumcision rites of remote African tribes described by a dry, rustling voice like the crumbling of yellowed paper." On the city...