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When he was setting the Parisian music world abuzz with his precocious piano playing in the 1840s, the young Camille Saint-Saens was taken to play for the great Hector Berlioz. Saint-Saens, with an aplomb beyond his years, dashed off a dazzling keyboard display. "All he lacks," announced Berlioz, "is inexperience...
...French cabbie idling in his taxi at the entrance of a Paris club called Espace Cardin. Inside, on this drizzly October evening, the world's most obsessed-about pop star is supposed to be taping a French TV special in front of a crowd of adoring, gyrating Parisian partygoers. But outside, the scene now is much more grim, with workmen lugging huge amplifiers and other stage equipment onto waiting trucks while clusters of fans linger under umbrellas looking très misérables. The cabbie didn't have to say a word: it's all too obvious Britney Spears...
French prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin all but declared war on the Parisian élite in an October interview with TIME, chastising French intellectuals for "not being open-minded enough about the world." It's a problem previous governments have grappled with, but last week Raffarin's government launched a new assault on the ruling class's high temple: the Ecole Nationale d'Administration, the fiercely competitive, 58-year-old school that breeds France's best and brightest. As of 2005, the school will close its Paris campus for everything but continuing education and concentrate its activities at its Strasbourg...
...quintessential Parisian scene. To the left of the café entrance, two women chatted in French and sipped hot chocolate, as music from the movie Amelie played in the background. However, a second glance revealed more than a few incongruities, including the unavoidable fact that the site was L.A. Burdick’s on Brattle Street and Apollonia U. Poilane ’07 is far from her Paris home...
...drops of distilled reality, like the way in which Lee idly swings an alleged “unbreakable” watch against a railing to test it, or the way in Chiang shyly tries to order food in a Parisian cafe as crushingly happy French patrons carouse all around her, are made more significant by the way in which they resonate with real life. These are not jokes written for the approval of a laugh track; they are humorous glimpses into the myriad illogical ways in which we behave...