Paris Magazine: The World
Syria's military intelligence chief in Lebanon, Gen. Ghazi Kenaan, denied saying that Muslim kidnapers sold a French hostage to Libya. Radio stations in Beirut quoted Kenaan as saying he never mentioned Libya during an interview with a correspondent for the Paris magazine Le Figaro. "Naming Libya by the magazine is an attempt to disturb relations between Syria and that sister country," Kenaan was quoted as saying. Le Figaro quoted the general as saying that...
Paris Magazine: French Accent
French Country Living, the Virginia-based store that has been bringing Country French style to the East Coast since 1986, is now going nationwide with a mail order catalog. The brainchild of Francophiles Bringier and Sally McConnell, the 36-page French Country Living Catalogue features a wide range of handsome Country French furniture, fabrics, food, tableware and accessories. Among the classics featured are ivory and blue rush-seat chairs from Normandy, Quimper earthenware with its scenes of...
Paris Magazine: ALSO NOTED
(box) Marie Osmond gave birth to her seventh child -- Matthew, eight pounds -- Tuesday in Provo, Utah. The TV talk-show host is wed to Brian Blosil. (box) Model Linda Evangelista and French soccer goalie Fabien Barthez are honeymooning on St. Maarten. They'll follow it up by getting married July 24. The Paris magazine Voici says the couple decided to honeymoon first so they'd have time before the start of soccer season.(box) It's looking as if Will Smith...
Paris Magazine: GRACE
Out of the blue, Prince Charming
In the fourth of a five-part series, Grace Kelly attends the Cannes Film Festival, unaware that a Paris magazine had plans that would change her life.AS SHE PREPARED to fly to France to attend the 1955 Cannes Film Festival, Grace Kelly was unaware of a conference taking place in the offices of Paris Match magazine - a meeting that set in motion a series of events that would ultimately change her life forever. It began with the magazine editor's desire for a photo feature that...
Paris Magazine: Hidden romance in the city of love,
Hidden France
Joel Stratte-McClure seeks quiet days in Clichy SOME time ago a Paris magazine ran a story about the Love Patrol, a French government organisation that promotes kissing and other forms of conspicuous affection in public.The goal of the Love Patrol is to safeguard and enrich the Parisian tradition of romance by encouraging caressing in streets, embracing in gardens and cuddling in courtyards.The Love Patrol also suggested that couples seek romance beyond the top of the Eiffel Tower,...