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...foggiest of reasons, both Fantomas and the hot-shot Parisian journalist who seeks to undo him are played by Jean Marais. He has neither Batman's flair nor James Bond's cool, though he can easily look squarer than Superman. Passionate self-parody is Marais's gimmick, and he earns a snicker whenever he detours into the arms of that demoiselle-in-distress, Mylène Demongeot, at one point with such fervency that he seems about to fling himself out of a rising helicopter...
...wading out into the Mediterranean to sneak pictures of Brigitte Bardot semi-nude on her private beach, they are risking their necks schussing down the ski slopes of the Alps on the track of the Aga Khan. In one typical operation they took a picture of a Parisian professor chatting with one of his students in a Left Bank bistro, then used it to illustrate an article attacking "old pigs" who debauch teenage girls...
...action took place in the placid reaches of Washington state's Puget Sound country, but the passion-to-poison script read more like one of Georges Simenon's Parisian chillers...
Every normal Norman, Parisian planners calculated, would be delighted to help pay for such a triumphal occasion. They were wrong. Nestled amid the knotty hedgerows and gnarled apple orchards of the lower Seine Valley lies the village of Veauville-les-Baons (pop. 353), which has not changed much since William's day-and to some extent, holds him responsible. According to Jean Comps, 54, village schoolmaster and official secretary (also renowned for his fine home-made Calvados), the liege lord of Normandy in 1060 forced Veauville to ante up an annual ten gold talents to the nearby abbey...
...generally feel assured of gaining entry to Charles de Gaulle's closely guarded Elyéee Palace: heads of state and SOS men. SOS operatives also receive the open-door treatment at the home of Premier Georges Pompidou, the American embassy and Princess Grace of Monaco's Parisian apartment. Reason: SOS is the company to which knowledgeable French householders turn when their plumbing goes bad, which is frequently...