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...take a back seat to no one-except in kidnaping, which French criminals apparently rate a U.S. specialty. The French do not even have a name for it, use the U.S. word, pronounced keednaping. But last week le crime américain was on every Parisian tongue. Little Eric Peugeot, an heir to one of France's greatest industrial (autos, appliances, heavy machinery) fortunes, was stolen in broad daylight and held for $100,000 ransom...
...Nice Man." As cops got the story, Eric and his older brother, Jean-Philippe, 7, were on an outing to Paris' exclusive Saint-Cloud Golf Club with Grandfather Jean-Pierre Peugeot, 63, titular head of the $40 million empire. While Grandpère played golf, the children were in the care of a nursemaid at the club playground. The maid felt chilly, went back to the car for a wrap and a chat with the Peugeot chauffeur. Ten minutes later, the nurse noticed that Eric was missing. A "nice man" had appeared, whispered "Come" to Eric...
...background, the family negotiated with Eric's kidnapers. Another letter arrived; there were at least two husky-voiced phone calls with additional instructions. France's press was beside itself (announced Paris' tabloid Paris-Jour: "See pages 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. 7, 14, 15"). Roland Peugeot went on TV to plead tearfully for his son's return: "Everyone who has children and loves them will understand me. I have not brought charges and have asked that the kidnapers not be trailed...
...Geraniums. Shortly before 1 a.m. on Oct. 16, Mitterrand left the Brasserie Lipp, favorite haunt of Parisian journalists and politicians, and headed in his blue Peugeot 403 for his apartment on the fashionable Rue Guynemer...
...told the story, Onetime Resistance Leader Mitterrand did not panic; instead, he pulled his car to a stop, piled out. leaped over an iron fence into the adjacent Luxembourg Gardens and took cover in a bed of geraniums. Seconds later a burst of submachine-gun fire riddled his empty Peugeot...