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Word: perrier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over France, billboards were demanding: "Does baby love Charrier?" Ostensibly, the ads were intended by their sponsor to imply that even infants go for Perrier's bottled mineral water, much of which gushes from a spring near the town of Charrier. Unfortunately, French for baby is bébé, pronounced "B.B.," who, as 45 million Frenchmen know, is Cineminx Brigitte Bardot. In turn, making the coincidence the more monstrous, B.B. is married to highstrung Cinemactor Jacques Charrier. Was Perrier, with gauche humor, hinting of discord in the Charrier family? Brigitte concluded just that, had her lawyers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 21, 1960 | 3/21/1960 | See Source »

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