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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...
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...
...many of the nearly 3,000 objects are of a kind and quality no longer obtainable on the art market, making it impossible to assess their true value. Besides paintings (such masterpieces as El Greco's St. Jerome as Cardinal and Rembrandt's The Painter, Gérard de Lairesse) and drawings, the collection includes bronzes, tapestries, ceramics, jewelry and furniture from the 12th to the 20th century. Said Museum Director Thomas Hoving to the 400 guests at the lavish party in honor of the Met's benefactors: "The sad thing is that Robert Lehman himself...
...Ambassadors Charles Yost of the U.S., Armand Bérard of France, Yakov Malik of the Soviet Union, and Lord Caradon of Britain gathered around the polished mahogany dining table in Bérard's Park Avenue flat...
Above all, the store lives up to its cable address, "Everything, London." The variety of quality goods and services it offers is unequaled in the world. It sells anything from 200 kinds of cheese to a $25,000 French Érard piano decorated with carved brass. The store will calmly take an order for a baby elephant-a $4,800 present for U.S. Republican Ronald Reagan from a friend-or a head of cabbage requested by telephone in the dead of night. It can find the Scottish piper wanted to pipe in the haggis or hire the entire regimental band...