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Ford mentored some of today’s leading academic historians and wrote on diverse subjects ranging from Louis XIV to political assassination...
...French Exception Dead? The French state has meddled in business ever since Jean-Baptiste Colbert ran the economy for Louis XIV. Now some are saying enough is enough. A parliamentary report published last week slammed state-owned enterprises, saying the French model "no longer fulfills new international and European demands." Among firms singled out: France Télécom, which the government has just bailed out with a €9 billion injection; the postal service, which is 25% overstaffed compared with European rivals; and the national utility...
...Tales of Times Past with Morals, the original Mother Goose tales. In this version, Red Riding Hood climbs into bed with the wolf—and is promptly devoured. Orenstein deftly shows us that the tale was intended as a morality fable for the decadent aristocracy under Louis XIV. In a society that both prized virginity and tolerated rampant sexual indiscretions, the tale cautioned ladies to “never trust a stranger-friend…wolves may lurk in every guise...
...that vein, the club’s name comes from a 17th-century patron of La Fontaine, Marquerite de la Sabliére, whose house was a meeting-place for poets and scientists in the court of Louis XIV...
...society is named for Marguerite de la Sablière, a 17th-century patron of La Fontaine, who turned her house into a meeting place for the literati from the court of Louis XIV. Sablière is also, coincidentally, the name of a nudist resort in France. Credit for the obscure name goes to Francophile Eugenia B. Schraa ’04, another founding member, who is also a Crimson editor...