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PART I: A FESTIVAL OF PLEASURES |
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Le bon vin -- no longer drunk on success |
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Champagne: small bubbles, big dreams |
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Meeting the world at la Coupole |
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Scenes From An Exhibition |
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Street dramas and melodramas |
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Listening to summer's silence -- the parks of Paris |
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Heaven's Gate -- the Jardin du Luxembourg |
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Lady Godiva rides in from Amsterdam |
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Owning Paris -- early-morning nostalgia |
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Seasons of Content, and Occasional Discontent |
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Back-to-everything time -- early fall's ``rentree'' |
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Lights and delights of Christmas |
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After you, Gaston -- January wishes |
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End-of-season fun -- bridges, fashion and music |
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Aux armes, citoyens! -- Bastille Day |
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Harmless summer obsessions |
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``Summer universities''-- warming up for autumn quarrels |
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History for everybody -- the lovely, lively 6th |
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Place des Vosges -- Paris's beating heart |
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Ghosts of Rome on Paris hills -- ``la Mouffe'' |
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Wandering in the Elysian Fields -- ``les Champs'' |
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PART II: PEOPLE FACING THEIR MUSIC |
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Olympe de Gouges -- famously unknown revolutionary |
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George Sand -- Pen, cigar and scandale |
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Francoise Sagan -- Bonjour tristesse, et au revoir |
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Three Simones show how -- Signoret, de Beauvoir, Veil |
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Sego, Cecilia, Carlita -- Cherchez la femme fatale |
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Iron elf in a Maserati -- Laurence Parisot |
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Gigi -- still dreaming of romance |
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Playing post office -- le facteur |
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Call the flics -- but which ones? |
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Le fisc -- loving the tax (wo)man |
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Taming the Red Army -- a work in progress |
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Bending principles, curing ills |
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Pasteur would be shocked... |
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Breathing green -- Nicolas Hulot |
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Rugbymania excites France's women |
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``I Think, Therefore (MayBe) I Am'' |
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Coffee, philosophy and a little flirting |
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Tony Blair (slowly) conquers France |
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Horatio at freedom's bridge -- Jean-Francois Revel |
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Gallant view of 1968 upheavals |
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PART III: A COUNTRY IN FAST-FORWARD |
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``Good old Golden Rule days'' |
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Pssst! -- Wanna see a French movie? |
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Carla leads Sarko to culture...and back to priorities |
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Napoleon lays down the law |
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No sex please, we're French |
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Dying for excitement -- the Foreign Legion |
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God creeps back into France |
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Milking cows and consumers -- France's farm lobby |
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The ghetto explodes -- Rose Gomis warns |
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Fires spread...and politicians tune their violins |
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Familiar talk -- and another hint -- of reform |
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A symbol, a voice, but where's the money? -- Fadela Amara |
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La rue -- leading the people from behind |
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Getting the `drift' of French politics |
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Shaving in the Elysee Palace |
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Adam Smith's ``invisible (political) hand'' |
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Bye-bye Lenin, hello Supertramp |
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PART IV: BEYOND THE SEINE--BUT HOW FAR? |
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France in Europe, Sometimes |
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Europe at fifty: War? What war? |
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Horsing around in the European Union |
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Islam in Europe: immigration, opportunity, identity |
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One small girl against the sea |
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Taking French leave...abroad |
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`World tour' of the ``Clemenceau'' |
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Dressing the world -- Yves Saint-Laurent |
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Saving the world -- Bernard Kouchner |
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| P.S. -- Finding Your Own Paris |
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