Mr. Jospin pledged $8.8 million in Government money to expand the center in the Marais, run by a foundation led by Eric de Rothschild, and said that perhaps this would make a start.
Mr. Savall's program, pitting a suite by Marais against another by Antoine Forqueray, took its title and epigraph from Le Blanc's essay: "The Viol was regarded with favor by King Louis XIV, who prized the elder Marais, for his 'Pieces,' and the elder Forcroi, for his Preludes in the manner of the Italian Sonata.
The ballet score is French, mostly excerpts from Couperin but also from Marin Marais, represented by an aptly turbulent passage from his "Tempete" that Mr. Feld visualized ingeniously onstage.
On the first day that we met, Sattouf took me to lunch at Les Comptoirs de Carthage, a canteen in the Marais owned by Kate Daoud, an Englishwoman in her sixties who married a Tunisian and lived in Tunisia for many years before settling in Paris.
As it happens, I knew the main locations well, from such Left Bank places as the Fifth Arrondissement streets just southeast of Shakespeare & Company and the Promenade plantée of the Twelfth to the Right Bank regions of the Marais that, by some miracle, they pass through en route.
Here, the model Alana Zimmer before (left) and after (right) makeup by Stephane Marais and hair by Eugene Souleiman.
Here, the model Frida Gustavsson of IMG before (left) and after (right) transforms, with makeup by Stephane Marais and hair by Guido Palau.
Here, the model Zen Sevastyanova of IMG before (left) and after (right) transforms, with makeup by Stephane Marais and hair by Eugene Souleiman.
Here, the model Frida Gustavsson from IMG before (left) and after (right) transforms, with makeup by Stephane Marais and hair by Guido Palau for Redken.
