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BORN in 1821 (at 4 a.m. on December 12), Flaubert spent his early years in Rouen, an industrial town in Normandy. He began writing when he was only eight years old, and despite several years of education to practice law, he remained a writer all of his life...
According to Liberation, the Soviet espionage operation got under way in 1985 after Konorev met and seduced a Rumanian woman named Antonetta Manole, who worked at the French National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies in Rouen, northwest of Paris. She, in turn, allegedly had an affair with her French boss, Pierre Verdier, and brought him into the conspiracy. Verdier later visited Moscow, where he fell in love with a woman named Ludmilla Varygin. The Soviets are said to have agreed to allow Varygin to emigrate to France to marry Verdier, but only if he would provide them with important...
...This, as it happens, is precisely what he would have wanted; it's only his admirers who sentimentally complain." Braithwaite makes a doughty admirer indeed: zealous, dogged, properly crazed. His particular madeleine, his key to the past, is a stuffed green parrot he discovers in a Flaubert museum in Rouen. The author borrowed a stuffed bird while he was writing A Simple Heart, in which a parrot is the last object of a gentle old woman's affection. Looking into its beady eye, Braithwaite suddenly feels close to his own idol. But, he ruminates, "the writer's voice--what makes...
While medical students dramatically broadcast their disgruntlement by releasing laboratory mice in Rouen and hanging a combative banner from the Eiffel Tower, the dissension snowballed. Law students declared a strike two weeks ago; last week economics faculties and the liberal-arts Sorbonne followed suit. In response, the government postponed its plans to present the Savary reforms to the National Assembly this week...
...potato gnocchi (which originated in Provence, not Italy). Her anthology of country stews-meat, fish and game-is thorough, as is her catalogue raisonné of cheeses. Some of the most luscious of all regional dishes are sweet: the fruity pound cake of the Loire, the tangy tartlets of Rouen and the fritters from the Alps known as pets de nonne (the name suggests they are gaseous). Willan also serves up historical tidbits. For example: Proust's madeleines came from Commercy in Lorraine; the word restaurant originated in Paris more than 200 years ago, when an innkeeper started offering...