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...psychoanalyst and University of Paris literature professor, wants to reassure students and bibliophobes that just knowing about a book as opposed to having read it is no reason for shame. "Even the most cultivated among us have enormous gaps in their knowledge," Bayard says. "Many great intellectuals - Paul Valéry, [Michel de] Montaigne, Oscar Wilde - often spoke about books they hadn't read, and didn't feel guilty about...
...This trial is medieval," said grim-faced Charlie Hebdo publisher Philippe Val before the court case opened. "If we can't criticize religion anymore, there will be no women's rights, no birth control and no gay rights...
...Val isn't the only one breathing more than a little hype into the trial. In anticipation of the French and international news coverage of the case, France's media establishment has taken on a crusading tone in covering its opening - or, as in Lib?ration's case, appointed itself the role of rear-guard in defending this attack on free speech. And this being campaign season, it's hardly surprising leading French politicians have not only spoken out on the case, but even arranged themselves invitations to testify...
That may be what makes “You Never Can Tell” such a terrific achievement: it does to its audi-ence exactly what it does to its characters. Leaving the Ex on Friday night, I felt a little like Val-ente—disoriented, exhilarated, and happy to have stumbled into something wonderful...
...most influential newsweekly. A devout reformist, Servan-Schreiber used L'Express to champion French decolonization and to back politicians who promised change. In 1970 Servan-Schreiber struck out into politics on his own-winning legislative and regional seats-and in 1974 briefly served as Reform Minister under President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing...