Word: soir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cher Antoine is a masterpiece," cheered France Soir. "A complete masterpiece, profound, sparkling, subtle, naive, poetic, comic, full of resonance." Wrote Le Figaro: "Anyone who doesn't like this piece knows nothing about human beings, has no love for the theater, can't recognize an author of talent and lacks a sense of humor...
...trees. Joan Tunney Wilkinson, 30, daughter of former Heavyweight Champion Gene Tunney, identified herself and asked for a drink of water, thereby ending a massive two-month-long search that began after she left her husband and two small daughters in Norway. According to Paris' France-Soir, the couple had quarreled, then separated to cool off, after agreeing to meet in Hamburg 15 days later. Apparently suffering from amnesia, the attractive brunette never kept the date; instead, she wandered south through Europe-hitching rides, sleeping in fields, eating what she could find. She is now recuperating at Marseille...
...hearts of Frenchmen. The magnificent Château de Chenonceaux is Henri II's tribute to his mistress, Diane de Poitiers. French authors and artists-Emile Zola and Bonnard, for example-have immortalized their mistresses in their art. For the past 18 years the popular daily newspaper France Soir has run an illustrated serial titled "Famous Love Affairs." And now comes a bestselling survey of 93 French males entitled The Sexual Behavior of the Married Man in France...
Only last week did it become clear what was really angering the French. Stories appeared in the generally pro-Gaullist Le Figaro and France-Soir hinting that the French had offered Britain a new chance to demonstrate a firm commitment to Europe, only to have their overture rejected. Furiously, Whitehall put its side of the story on record. At a luncheon in Paris on Feb. 4 with Britain's Ambassador to France, Christopher Soames, an avid pro-European who is Winston Churchill's son-in-law, De Gaulle-according to the British account-proposed that the two countries...
...Macaroni Factory. The current crisis has its origins in the chaotic conditions that prevailed in France after World War II. In 1949, Jean Prouvost, a press baron (Paris-Match, Paris-Soir) as well as France's largest woolens manufacturer, purchased a controlling interest in Figaro. But because he had served briefly in the collaborationist Vichy regime, both Gaullists and leftists opposed letting him assume editorial command. So he signed an agreement with Figaro's noted editor, Pierre Brisson, who had killed off the paper during World War II rather than knuckle under to the Nazis. The agreement gave...