La Seduction: How the French Play the Game of Life (43 page)

Scudéry, Madeleine (Mademoiselle) de,
Clélie

seafood.
See
fish and seafood

second degré

secrecy

in politics

seduction, definitions of

Séguéla, Jacques

Seine River

Sempé, Jean-Jacques

Semsar de Boisséson, Shéhérazade

Senate of France.
See
Parliament, Senate

sensuality

September 11 terrorist attacks

seventeenth century

Sévigné, Marquis de

Seward, Vanessa

sex

in advertising

frequency of

homosexuality

infidelity

play

politics and

prelude to

at Versailles

Sex and the City

Sheraton, Mimi

shopkeeper-customer relationship

Sieburg, Friedrich,
Dieu est-il français?
(Is God French?)

Signoret, Simone

Simon, François

Sinclair, Anne

Sipress, David

Sloggi

Smale, Alison

smiling

soccer

socialism

Socialist Party

social security

“soft power,”

Sorrow and the Pity, The
(film)

spas

Starr, Kenneth

Steinberger, Michael,
Au Revoir to All That

Steinheil, Marguerite

Stendhal

Stewart, Potter

Strasbourg

Strauss-Kahn, Dominique

street, flirtation on the

striptease

style.
See
fashion

suburbs.
See banlieues

sugar cube

Süskind, Patrick,
Le parfum

Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles

Maurice de

Tautou, Audrey

taxes

Tbilisi

Tea Party

technology

television

Thomass, Chantal

Times
(UK)

Tocqueville, Alexis de,
Democracy in America

tomatoes

Toulemonde, Bernard

tourism

trade

allées
of

Trintignant, Jean-Louis

tripe

Truffaut, François

truffle

tu
and
vous
, etiquette of

Tunisia

turkey

Twitter

UMP (Union pour un Mouvement Populaire)

Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau, The

unemployment

UNESCO

United Nations

Charter

United Nations General Assembly

United Nations Security Council

United States

Congress

cultural differences from France

political relationship with France

Revolutionary War 99

Sarkozy and

Thanksgiving

Vadim, Roger

Vaillant, Maryse,
Men, Love, Fidelity

Valentine’s Day

Valéry, Paul

Valeurs Actuelles

Van Cleef & Arpels

Vanity Fair

Vannier, Bertrand

Vatican

Veil, Simone

verbal seduction

verlan

Versailles

sex at

Viagra

Vichy regime.
See also

World War II

Villepin, Dominique de

Vinocur, John

Voltaire

Mérope

vous
and
tu
, etiquette of

Wells, Walter

Wharton, Edith

French Ways and Their Meaning

Madame de Treymes

Wieviorka, Michel

WikiLeaks

Wilder, Billy

Wilson, Woodrow

wine

winking

workplace, flirtation in the

World War I

World War II

D-Day anniversary and

Yade, Rama

YouTube

Yvon, Roger

Zara

Zola, Émile