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About their own culture, all Frenchmen are hyperbolists. But in this case, Toubon might be right. For when Mitterrand opened the newly rebuilt Richelieu wing last week, he vastly expanded the world's most famous museum and, for the first time in the palace's 447-year history, allowed the Louvre to be dedicated entirely to its extraordinary art collections. With its 231,400 sq. ft. of floor space, the three-story Richelieu wing will double the Louvre's display areas, allowing its curators to pull more than 4,000 works out of the reserves and put a total...
...Frenchmen divest tycoon and wife of $10 million in jewels...
...Prime Minister Michel Rocard call Maastricht a way to harness the "German demons." Folding Germany into Western Europe's strong embrace, the argument goes, will prevent it from turning eastward to build a new economic empire around the former Soviet satellites. On the other hand, a growing number of Frenchmen find the intimacy prescribed by Maastricht too close for comfort. "France has been a sovereign nation for 1,000 years," said Cognac Mayor Francis Hardy. "We have suffered too much in three wars with Germany to melt into one federal agglomeration...
Last week Cresson drew fire again, this time for saying that Frenchmen are more interested in women than are men in the U.S., Germany and Britain -- where, she contended, a quarter of the males are homosexual. When these allegations, made in a 1987 interview for a book about women, were published in Britain's Sunday Observer, Cresson, 57, claimed that it was "not fair play" to pull an old conversation "out of a drawer." Throughout England, stiff upper lips quivered. "They don't call Paris 'Gay Paree' for nothing, you know," retorted the tabloid...
...world saw America as a fading power, riddled with self-doubt and persistent social problems, gradually being overshadowed by the economic might of Japan and Germany. Nowhere does condescension toward Americans achieve the exquisite and insufferable effects that it accomplishes in France. In the mid-1960s, some Frenchmen wondered if the Americans would ever make it to the moon if they insisted on calculating distances in feet and inches. Americans were considered "les grands enfants," powerful but childish. Not long ago, a University of Tours sociologist named Jean-Pierre Sergent argued that Americans would...