Jennings is Canadian, which to his fans makes him almost as Bohemian as a beret-wearing Left Bank intellectual in this bland context.
Liberal Canada succumbed for a while to "Trudeaumania", thrilled to be led by a man who seemed like a cross between a rock star and a Left Bank intellectual.
But by the time I was born, in the 1970s, some detached, too-cool Left Bank intellectual had taken a break from his doctorate in semiotics to invent postmodernism, and we were doomed to a world of irony.
Julie de Libran is finding her feet at Sonia Rykiel with a Parisian trope and one closely associated with the house – the Left Bank intellectual.
Figon was a product of a well-off bourgeois family, an unrepentant professional criminal who'd become, like Jean Genet before him, the darling of Left Bank intellectuals like Jean-Paul Sartre and novelist and film-maker Marguerite Duras.
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And Mr Sarkozy has no time for left-bank intellectuals "so sure of what they think while drinking coffee on the Boulevard Saint-Germain".
Yet, at the time of his death, Camus found himself an outcast in Paris, snubbed by Jean-Paul Sartre and other left-bank intellectuals, and denounced for his freethinking refusal to yield to fashionable political views.
At the same time, because socialism was long the source of idealism in France -- the sustenance of left-bank intellectuals and a strong labor movement -- and that idealism was simply exhausted by the 14-year rule of Francois Mitterrand that ended in 1995, the country has found itself suddenly bereft of any meaningful ideological debate.
On a recent morning, Mr. McDonald has the insouciant air of a Left Bank French intellectual.
In their book, "We're Losing Our Minds," Richard P. Keeling and Richard H. Hersh argue that many colleges and universities see themselves passively as "a kind of bank with intellectual assets that are available to the students".
