{"id":508,"date":"2005-03-11T16:34:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-11T21:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=508"},"modified":"2005-12-09T10:23:04","modified_gmt":"2005-12-09T15:23:04","slug":"french-tickler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/french-tickler","title":{"rendered":"French Tickler"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a not-so-nice biography out about Bernard-Henri Levy, the Frenchman who wrote a book about the murder of Danny Pearl<\/a>. Here’s a quote from the biography’s review<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Character assassination in France is less of a sport than in Britain, because the French care less about character, and in the culture that gave us Les Liaisons Dangereuses<\/span> it is hard to inflame prurient sentiment by saying that a man has slept with a woman not his wife. On the other hand you can seriously damage a reputation by suggesting that an idea for a book was not the author’s own, or that he has misconstrued his classical sources.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a not-so-nice biography out about Bernard-Henri Levy, the Frenchman who wrote a book about the murder of Danny Pearl. Here’s a quote from the biography’s review: Character assassination in France is less of a sport than in Britain, because the French care less about character, and in the culture that gave us Les Liaisons … <\/p>\n

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