Word: rard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Michel Guérard, at 41 the youngest of the four, whose two-star Les Prés et les Sources d'Eugénie honors the old cuisine in flavor but not always in calories...
Directed by GÉRARD OURY Screenplay by GÉRARD OURY and DANIELLE THOMPSON
What's in a name? In France, plenty of legal trouble-if the name happens to be one that French law finds distasteful. Last week every Frenchman with an infelicitous name seemed to be protesting the case of Gérard and Paulette Tro-gnon, a middle-class couple from the town of Le Mée-sur-Seine southeast of Paris. Recently a three-judge court in nearby Melun ruled that the Trognons could not bestow their name on their three-year-old foster son Philippe. The court did not object to the couple but only to their...
French courts rarely attempt to force a name change-evidently with reason. The Trognons, who are appealing the Melun decision, have become a cause celebre, rather than a butt of jokes. Gérard Trognon refuses to let Philippe keep his original surname. "How," he asks, "will he be able to answer the teasers who say he is not his father's son because of a different name?" Similarly Paulette stalwartly refuses to give up her married name; she loves to call Gérard "mon petit Trognon" at intimate moments. The couple has received letters of support from...
After Bobby had finished a huge anthology of Western literature, someone asked what he had got out of it. As always, his answer was unpredictable: "I liked the poet . . . the delicate Parisian one, Gérard de Nerval. He walked his lobster on a leash. People in the street said: 'What's your lobster doing out here on a leash?' Nerval said: 'He doesn't bark and he knows the secrets of the deep.'" Bobby's special affinity, however, was for the Greek poets and dramatists, particularly Aeschylus, the father of tragedy...