La Seduction: How the French Play the Game of Life (42 page)

Henri IV, king of France

Hepburn, Audrey

Hériard Dubreuil, Dominique

Hermès

Hévin, Jean-Paul

Hidden Side of the Fesses, The
(film)

Hoffmann, Stanley

Holbrooke, Richard

Hollande, François

homosexuality

Hory, Jean-François

hosiery

Hotel Lutetia, Paris

Hudson, Kate

Hugo, Victor

Hulse, Carl

Île de la Cité

immigrants

India

Influences

Institut d’études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po)

intellectual culture

International Flavors & Fragrances

International Herald Tribune

International Monetary Fund

International Perfume Museum, Grasse

Internet

Iran

Iraq

Iraq War

French-American split over

Islam

Israel

Italy

Jagger, Georgia May

Jagger, Mick

Jardin de la Vallée Suisse

jasmine

Jefferson, Thomas

Jeunet, Jean-Pierre

jewelry

Jews, Nazi extermination of.
See also
World War II

Joan of Arc

Joffrin, Laurent

John Paul II, Pope

Jospin, Lionel

Jourdet, Sylvie

Journal du Dimanche, Le

Jousse, François

July, Serge

Katz, Basil

Kauffmann, Jean-Paul

Kemoularia, Claude de

Kennedy, Jacqueline

Kennedy, John F.

Kent, Stacey

Kerbellec, Sophie

Kerbrat-Orecchioni, Catherine,
L’implicite

Khatami, Mohammad

kissing

cheek

hand

Kissinger, Henry

kitchen

Koenig, Gaspard

Kosovo

Kouchner, Bernard

Kristel, Sylvia

labor strikes

Labro, Philippe

lace

Lafayette, Madame de (Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, comtesse de Lafayette),
La princesse de Clèves

La Fontaine, Jean de,
Fables

La Fressange, Inès de

Lagarde, Christine

Lagerfeld, Karl

lamb

Lancel

landscape

Lang, Jack

Lanzmann, Claude,
Le lièvre de Patagonie

Lara, Catherine

Laumond, Jean-Claude

Le Cornec, Françoise

Leger, Alexis (Saint-John Perse)

Legion of Honor

leisure time

Lelouch, Claude

Le Maire, Bruno

Lemoine, Sanae

Lenclos, Anne “Ninon” de

Lenôtre

Le Pen, Jean-Marie

Le Pen, Marine

Let’s Make Love
(film)

Levitte, Jean-David

Lévy, Bernard-Henri

American Vertigo

Women and Men: A Philosophical Conversation

Lévy, Jean-Daniel

Lévy, Justine,
Nothing Serious

Lévy, Maurice

Lewinsky, Monica

libel laws

Libération

lighting

lingerie

literature.
See also specific authors and books

Long, Luc

look, seductive.
See regard, le

Loto des Odeurs, Le

Louis Napoléon.
See
Napoléon III

Louis XIII, king of France

Louis XIV, king of France

Louis XV, king of France

Louis XVI, king of France

Louis XVIII, king of France

Louvre

love

Love in the Afternoon
(film)

Luchini, Fabrice

Lyon

Madame Figaro

Maginot Line

Maje

makeup

Malle, Frédéric

Malle, Louis

Malraux, André

Man and a Woman, A
(film)

Mango

manners

Man Who Loved Women, The
(film)

Marceau, Sophie

Margerie, Sophie-Caroline de

Martel, Clément

Marianne

Marianne
magazine

Marie Antoinette, queen of France

Marie Antoinette
(film)

Marivaux

marriage

divorce

infidelity

“Marseillaise,”

Marshall Plan

Martel, Frédéric

Mainstream

Martin, Francis

Mastroianni, Marcello

Mauboussin

maudite dissertation

Maupassant, Guy de

Bel-Ami

Le Horla

Pierre et Jean

McConnell, Mitch

McDonald’s

Méaulle, Fortuné

meat

media

official secrecy and

see also specific publications
; television

Medicis, Catherine de

Mendès-France, Pierre

Ménilmontant

Mercadier, Marthe

Mercier, Laura

Merkel, Angela

Michelet, Jules

Middle Ages

military

Minc, Alain

mineral water

mission civilisatrice
.
See
civilizing mission

Mitterrand, François

womanizing of

Mitterrand, Frédéric

The Bad Life

Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin),
Don Juan

monarchy.
See also specific kings, queens, and palaces

Monde, Le

money

Monroe, Marilyn

Montand, Yves

Monteil, Olivier

Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de

Montmartre

Montreynaud, Florence

monuments

Morand, Paul

Moreau, Jeanne

Morgan, Michèle

Morocco

Moss, Kate

Mul, Joseph

Murdoch, Rupert

mushrooms

music

Muslims

veil

My Night at Maud’s
(film)

Nagy, Piroska

Napoléon Bonaparte

Napoléon III (Charles-Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, Louis Napoléon)

National Assembly of France.
See
Parliament, National Assembly

National Front

national identity

agriculture and

immigration and

international culture and

suburbs and

NATO

Nazism.
See also
World War II

Némarq, Alain

Neuilly-sur-Seine

Newsweek

New Yorker, The

New York Times
,
The

Normandy

Notre Dame Cathedral

Nouvel Observateur, Le

nuclear weapons

nudity

nuits de la pleine lune, Les
(film)

Nye, Joseph

Obama, Barack

Obama, Michelle

Occupation.
See also
World War II

oil

Old Regime.
See also
French Revolution

on ne sait jamais

opération séduction

Ophüls, Marcel

Orléans

oysters

Ozouf, Mona

Paris

beauty of

dinner party

Eiffel Tower

lighting

Occupation

see also specific locations, neighborhoods, and streets

Paris, je t’aime
(film)

Paris Exposition

Parisien, Le

Paris Match

Paris Métro

Paris Peace Conference.
See also
World War I

Parliament

National Assembly

Senate

Paron

pas mal

pas terrible

pastry

patrimoine
(heritage)

Paxton, Robert

Péan, Pierre

pensions

perfection

perfume

Perrier ad campaign

Perse, Saint-John.
See
Leger, Alexis

Petit Trianon.
See also
Versailles

Peyrefitte, Alain

Philip V, king of France

philosophy

physical beauty.
See
beauty, physical

Pingeot, Anne

Pingeot, Mazarine

pipolization

Pitt, Brad

Pitte, Jean-Robert

pleasure

Point, Le

Poivre d’Arvor, Patrick

Polanski, Roman

polémiques

Polge, Jacques

politesse

politics

food and

presidency

Sarkozy and

secrecy and

seduction and

sex and

see also specific politicians

Pompadour, Madame de (Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, marquise de Pompadour)

Pompidou, Georges

Pompidou Center

poultry

préciosité

Printemps

Printemps, Yvonne

Protestantism

Proust, Marcel

“Another Memory,”

Remembrance of Things Past

Swann’s Way

Psychologies
magazine

Publicis

quai des brumes, Les
(film)

Quatremer, Jean

Queyranne, Jean-Jacques

Rabanne, Paco

Rabau, Sophie

Racine, Bruno

Radio France

regard, le

Reims

religion

Renaissance

Renard, Jules

Rendez-vous en France

Republic

Fifth

Fourth

restaurants

retirement

Reynès, Bernard

Reza, Yasmina

Dawn Dusk or Night

Reza Pahlavi, Shah Mohammad

Rhône River

Ribaut, Jean-Claude

Rice, Condoleezza

Ridicule
(film)

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Rivkin, Charles

Rocca Serra, Jacques

Rodin, Auguste

Rohmer, Eric

Romans

romantic history

Roosevelt, Theodore

roses

Roth, Philip

Rothschild, Allan

Roudy, Yvette

Rouen

Roupnel, Gaston

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

Royal, Ségolène

Rozès, Stéphane

rue du Bac

Rumsfeld, Donald

Rungis food market

Russia

Rykiel, Nathalie

Rykiel, Sonia

Sacré Coeur Basilica

Saint-Denis

Saint Dreux, Anne

Sainte-Marie, Jérôme

Saint-Germain-des-Prés

Saint-Jean-de-Luz

Saint Laurent, Yves

Saint-Tropez

Saint-Vincent, Bertrand de

Sanders, Véronique

Sanford, Mark

Santini, André

Sarkozy, Cécilia

Sarkozy, Nicolas

approach to seduction and politics

seduction of America

Testimony

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Saudi Arabia

Saunier-Seïté, Alice

Savoy, Guy

Savoy, Louis

Savoy, Marie

scallops

scent.
See
perfume

Schmitt, Anne-Florence

Schneider, Romy

Schneidermann, Daniel

Schwarzenegger, Arnold

Scoppetta, Nicholas