From the madame of the bidonville brothel in her native Cameroon to the concierge of the Paris immeuble, women laugh, cry, hate and love their way through life.
Mr Druon, who must hope that his madame le ministre does not lose her job to a madame la ministre after next month's general election, should explain.In this section Chilly in the west, warmer in the east They're being broken The mystery of language and ideology Return of the teflon taoiseach A general strike looms Breakthrough?
When a woman is the headmistress of a school, she is a madame la directrice, yet if she were the CEO of a company, she would be madame le directeur.
Dirac also remained true to Werner Heisenberg, a German physicist suspected of being a Nazi sympathiser.In this section A natural selection Bloody history, unhappy future Madame Prosecutor How to be bold Theoretical physics Underwater treasures ReprintsDirac was notoriously reticent.
Bill Gross, a fund manager at PIMCO, a bond-trading firm, likens the highest-rated tranches of CDOs to a Hollywood madame masquerading as a wholesome, all-American girl.The ratings agencies are holding their ground.
7 alleé du Jardin Madame, Villerville, +33 2 3187 2022, bellevue-hotel.fr, doubles from €97 Lion-sur-Mer on the Côte de Nacre, the "pearl coast", resembles an Edward Hopper landscape, with its long sandy beach marked by an archaic lifeguard's lookout.
They are the only group of female sommeliers in France and count the aforementioned Madame Veysseron as a member.
At 49, earnest and nervous, a scientist and a mother, she brought to mind the pioneering heroism of a Madame Curie, the dogged faith of a Joan of Arc.
"Politeness requires that you quickly close the door and say, 'Pardon, Madame!', whereas tact would be to quickly close the door and say: 'Pardon, Monsieur!'" "It is only in the second case," explained philosopher Slavoj Žižek recently, "by pretending not to have seen enough even to make out the sex of the person under the shower, that one displays true tact".
It made her a celebrity in the salons of Paris, a status she traded for that of Madame-la-Colère, an agitator who flogged her failing body round France, denouncing the oppression of women and appalling social conditions, and seeking recruits for her Workers' Union.Gauguin's idealism was of a different kind.
The 1977 swansong of surrealist maestro Luis Buñuel, That Obscure Object of Desire, was beaten by a French film rarely mentioned today, Madame Rosa – perhaps because the latter didn't baffle voters by having two actresses play one part.
