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...first three weeks, an average of 20 emergencies a night have been handled by the five doctors on patrol, and the public loudly approves the new setup. Other Parisian doctors are as delighted as the emergency patients. The SOS service allows them to choose to stay home even if a personal patient is stricken...
...crowds and the nodding lindens of Gorky Street, Charles de Gaulle beamed magnificently from the very window in Moscow's massive, 19th century city hall where Lenin had exhorted the revolutionaries of 1919. "I am in finitely touched," De Gaulle began. "I bring you the greetings of the Parisian people and the people of France." Then, in perfectly polished Russian: "Long live Moscow! Long live Russia! Long live friendship between France and Russia!" At that cry, the lowering summer skies of Moscow burst with a Wagnerian thunderclap, lightning bolts crackled among the onion domes of the Kremlin...
...comedy in period style, but the flashbacks that follow bring Lady L to a spotty end. Her confession story, plucked from Romain Gary's novel by protean Writer-Director Peter Ustinov (who also spills out of a minor role as an addled Bavarian prince), describes how a scrumptious Parisian laundress rises to greatness as the wife of David Niven, one of England's most debonair lords. En route to her destiny. Sophia is delayed briefly in a bordello, which has chambers designed for train buffs or Arabian Knights. There she meets Paul Newman, who performs behind a large...
...BONNES FEMMES. All the humor, horror and futility in the lives of four commonplace Parisian shopgirls fill a downbeat but poignant tale by French Director Claude Chabrol (The Cousins...
...died in 1945 of injuries sustained in Central Park, where he tripped over the leash of his wife's dog. The only male Bonapartes alive today are a 16-year-old boy (Charles Napoleon Bonaparte) and his 52-year-old father (Napoleon Louis Jerome Victor Bonaparte), a prosperous Parisian who drives expensive sports cars-scarcely a Napoleonic occupation, but (as one of the conqueror's nieces remarked) it beats "selling oranges on the quayside at Ajaccio...