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Preface

PARIS FRANCE
When Paris Put On Its Best Dress
Men Will Be Boys
Genêt: French Rigor and American Gusto
The Friends of Mona Lisa
A Rueful Glance Ahead at New Face of Paris
The Last Old-Time Soup Kitchen in Paris
A Struggle for the Soul of a Paris Restaurant
Paris in a Bottle: A Wine Grower's Dream
Animating Paris, City Hall Style
Cooking Classes by Princess and Countess
Potato of Snobs, Dainty and Newly Chic, Captivates Paris
Daniel Cohn-Bendit: Ten Years After the Events of May
Happy Memories of Gray Paris in the Fifties
Vionnet, Last of the Great Couturiers
The Fine Art of Window Shopping
Saint-Germain's Latest Brainstorm
Simone Signoret: A Memory

RITES AND RULES
Paris -- La France Profonde Comes Back to Town
Money Speaks in France
Getting Through France's Linguistic Jungle
Exemplary, Bearded Clémentine
The 2 CV: They Laughed, Then Loved It
Age-Rated French Encyclopedia on Sex
Luminous Ideas of the Concours Lépine
Assembly Line Vacations
French Pursuing the Right Number
How Long Is Long? The Meter Turns 200
The "Rustproof" Candidate for the French Presidency
Virtuosi of the People's Piano
French History: Past and Present Clash
An Election in Which the Scofflaw Wins
1944: The Many Who Were Forgotten
Letting Loose and Holding Down
Be Careful, It's Mushroom Season Again
Monsieur le Perpetuel to the Rescue of English
Why a Leopard Cannot Change Its Spots

WORDS AND IMAGES
A Vintage Year for Duras
Simone de Beauvoir Talks, and Talks
V.S. Pritchett's Cheerful Laments
Elisabeth Lutyens: "A Dog Barks and a Composer Composes"
Erich Salomon's Eye on Clever Hopes
Keeping Berlin Berlinisch
"Love Ya": Voznesensky and His Collages
Brassaï, Among Friends
Robert Doisneau's "Little Scraps of Time"
Photographer Don McCullin: "The Dark Side of a Lifetime"
Christo in Search of a Perfect Umbrella
Peter Brook: "One Has to Do Everything as Lightly as Possible"
Robert Morley Has Just Had Fun
Before "Paradise" and After -- Carné's Prickly Recollections
A Renoir Air of Family
François Truffaut -- Love and Children
Alain Resnais: The Rhythm of the Ear and Eye
In Raul Ruiz's Cinematic Labyrinth
Wertmuller: "I Love Chaos"
Fate, Fellini and Casanova
Ingmar Bergman: A Shadow of the Future
Marcel Ophuls, Professional Memory Man
Bertrand Tavernier and the War That Never Ended
Ella Maillart at Her Journey's End
A Lost World in Paris