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...Sorbonne in Paris, Louis-le-grand has an ancient passion to create "an elite of the elite" and a modern penchant for vaulting brainy boys into the grandes écoles, the supra-universities whose graduates virtually run France. This week Lycée Louis-le-grand celebrates the 400th anniversary of its founding by a once despised elite: the Jesuits, then mostly Spaniards, who in 1563 started their own school in the Bishop of Clermont's Paris mansion. Young and liberal, the Jesuits irked Sorbonne theologians with novel notions-for example, that the pains of purgatory might last only...
...specific programs have been decided upon yet, but the Elizabethan expert indicated that he would not overlook the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth in the spring...
Last week, still as enthused as Cather ine, the French government opened twelve months of festivities commemorating the 400th anniversary of the arrival of Nicot's weed in France. As troubadours sang the glories of smoking to an audience of 800, the organizers of the meeting proudly an nounced the creation of a new chivalrous order of tobacco lovers - "The Compan ions of Jean Nicot," whose members will be entitled to wear a lapel ribbon just like chevaliers of the Legion of Honor...
Thus, as the current season started, the over-all total of productions since the War--student-written or otherwise--stood at the impressive figure of 426. For those interested in such things as the millionth car to go through the Holland Tunnel, the 400th post-War production turned out to be the Hasty Pudding show, Run for the Money...
...French Protestants crowded the narrow roads with their cars and buses on a pilgrimage to the thick-walled, stone peasant cottage and the tiny museum next to it, which are crammed with relics of one of the most bitter religious wars Europe has known. They were marking the 400th anniversary of the founding of the Protestant Reformed Church in the Cevennes region, which saw so much of the historic struggle with Roman Catholicism, and the sooth anniversary of the death of Protestantism's great restorer, Antoine Court...