June 1958
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Articles
Is France Being Americanized?
Accent on Living
l'Une Et l'Autre
The Châteaux of France: Some Pros and Cons
One of the foremost art critics in France, RAYMOND COGJNIAT is principal inspector for the Beaux-Arts and writes regularly for FIGABO. He has written books on Gauguin, Van Gogh, and Cézanne.
Aérien Bestiaire
Record Reviews
Wines of France Today
The Atlantic Report on the World Today: Washington
Canada
France
The living embodiment of French versatility, JEAN COCTEAU has in his more than seventy years been successively poet, novelist, artist, stage designer, movie director, essayist, dramatist, and critic. He is now a venerated member of the French Academy.
The House of Gallimard
Born in 1922 GUY DUMUR is a young author and critic who has written, two novels and a book on the plays of Pirandello. A resident of Paris, he has had ample opportunity to observe the fortunes of the house of Gallimard from both the inside and the outside.
The State of Grace
The author of sixteen novels, MARCEL AYMÉ is particularly well known in France for his many short stories, fables, and plays. The following story is taken from his new book, LE VIN DE PARTS.This translation by Norman Denny has been made available to the ATLANTICby The Bodley Head of London.
Paris
Compagnons Du Silence
Les Français N'aiment Pas La Publicité
ROBERT GUÉRIN spent more than a quarter of a century in advertising. Now retired, he lives in his country house at Aix-en-Provence, writing, collecting folk art, and cultivating his garden.
Americans in Paris
Curnonsky: Prince of Gastronomes
Etcher, writer, and photographer, SAMUEL CHAMBERLAIN has lived for many years in France. Interested in French gastronomy ever since he was an ambulance driver with the French Army in World War I, he is the author of CLEMENTINE IN THE KITCHEN and BOUQUET DE FRANCE.
Vrai Nom
Fifty Years of French Fashions
An intimate friend of Gertrude Stein, ALICE B. TOKLAS still lives, surrounded by Picasso and Juan Gris paintings, in the old Left Hank apartment in Paris which they once inhabited together.
The Tomatoes
PIERRE GASCAR has won both the Prix des Critiques and the Prix Goncourt. “The Tomatoes" is an excerpt from his new novel, THE SEED,which has been translated by Merloyd Lawrence and will be published next fall under the Atlantic-Little, Brown imprint.
Excerpt From Seamarks
This excerpt has been translated by Wallace Toidie. The complete poem is to appear shortly in the Bollingen Series.
Bernard Buffet: A Primitive Among the Moderns
A firm believer in the traditional values that have been the glory of France, JEAN DUTOURD is the author of THE TAXIS OF THE MARNE, which was a recent best seller in the United States.
Ce Peu d'Ocean
The French Economy: A Study in Paradoxes
RAYMOND ARONis the author of a dozen books on sociological, historical, and political topics, and writes regularly for FIGARO. The article which follows is adapted from his latest book, EPOTR ET PEUR DU SIÈCLE, part of which Doubleday will be publishing in English later in the year.
Tourist Calendar France Summer 1958
Color as Love: A Portrait of Chagall
CARLTON LAKE is the Paris art critic for the CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, and since 1952 he has made his headquarters in a venerable Louis XIII house on the Ile St. Louis. When Marc Chagall returned this spring from his visit to the United States, Mr. Lake called on him at his home in Paris. The following article is the result.
Second Circle
A graduate of the University of Southern California, JMAC,DONALD HARRIS is note teaching literature at the University of Utah. “Second Circle,”he says, “started with my annoyance with people who think scholars live in ivory towers. A knowledge of Provençal metrics is not incompatible with ability to fix an elevator.”
Aléa
This suggested largo is dedicated to the memory of Arnold Schönberg.
The Years With Ross
“Sex is an incident,”Harold floss was given to asserting, but in the offices of his NEW YORKKR magazine, and indeed elsewhere in New York, it sometimes became somewhat more than that. This is the eighth part in JAMES THURBER’S series.
The Peripatetic Reviewer
Reader's Choice
