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...CHAMADE, by Françoise Sagan. Another dissection of the anatomy of a love affair written crisply and economically by the heiress to Colette's throne...
...CHAMADE, by Françoise Sagan. Another of the author's interlocking triangles-two young lovers, two older lovers at hopelessly crossed purposes. A brief novel, elegantly told...
...CHAMADE, by Francoise Sagan. Another swift vignette of autumnal love in Paris, turned out with crisp economy by a Gallic miniaturist...
...Paris, no one makes love in the evening any more; everyone is too tired." So sighs a character in Francoise Sagan's latest novel, La Chamade, and so to a breathless world was revealed the latest innovation in French amatory technique. In the days of Maupassant, mustaches and mistresses, the affluent Frenchman could not do without his cinq a sept-the 5-to-7 p.m. evening liaison with his paramour. Then he dashed home for a 7:30 dinner with his wife. All of that, as La Sagan sadly reports, has changed...
...wonderful alibi," explained one Parisian housewife last week. "You tell your husband you must go to the hairdresser. Then, instead, you send your wig and stay home to receive your lover. You retrieve the wig later and appear properly coiffed for your husband. Neat." As for Novelist Sagan, who was in New York last week promoting her new book, the failure of Americans to adapt to the new timetable was a bit tristessing. Gazing wistfully at the towers of Manhattan as the clocks struck 2, she said: "It doesn't seem to have caught on here...