Paging the Frogs.

I've recently acquired a fat little volume entitled "Petit Mondain 1996".
It seems to be a list of people, principally in France. Does anyone know
what it is? My Google mojo seems to have gone a bit flaccid on this one.

 

Google says:
http://www.wipo.int/ipdl/en/madrid/key.jsp?KEY=624397

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that Jesus was not born of a virgin." Cardinal Bellarmine

 

~= 'Who's who'.

HTH.

D.
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Bzzt!

http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=5561
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'not as vulgar as ..'

http://coughlan.fr/bottin.jpg

Do try to remember, dear chap that I'm French, and that this _is_ my
language.

D.
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des | 'what does it matter what he posts?'
http://www.jr.co.il/terror/israel/index.html
end the 'occupation': http://minilien.fr/a0k8xe
ukrm: 'where it's "cool" to be stupid!'
myths of islam: http://minilien.fr/a0j5qo

 

Yeah, I'd found that. Doesn't say what it actually is, though.

 

Aha! This will be, as you said, the cut-down version: names, addresses,
telephone numbers. I imagine it's designed to fit into the glove
compartment when on tour.

 

It's a list of people in France who are 'important'. The word 'bottin'
is a colloquial word to describe a directory or a listing of someone or
something. 'Regarde dans le bottin, enfin!!' ('look in the phone book,
for ****'s sake...'). The adjective 'mondain' refers to 'monde' in
French, i.e. 'of the world' (as opposed to 'spiritual'). Indeed, a
quick glance in _Le Petit Robert_ ..

http://coughlan.fr/bottin2.jpg

So .. =~ 'Who's who'.

D.
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des | 'what does it matter what he posts?'
http://www.jr.co.il/terror/israel/index.html
end the 'occupation': http://minilien.fr/a0k8xe
ukrm: 'where it's "cool" to be stupid!'
myths of islam: http://minilien.fr/a0j5qo

 

Napolean wasn't shy about making people into kings, dukes and other
stuff as a reward for services rendered. The revolution didn't abolish
the aristocracy, it just killed off all of those it didn't like. The
rest of them still retained their titles and "nobility".

 

FFS you don't expect me old eyes to see a tiny little ~ do you?

We could discuss at length how it differs from 'Who's who' but for
platy's purposes the approximation will suffice.



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I have to be honest, and admit I have forgotten most of my 19th
century European history.

 

Ah, if only it were just the French. Our lives would be a lot easier.

D.
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des | 'what does it matter what he posts?'
http://www.jr.co.il/terror/israel/index.html
end the 'occupation': http://minilien.fr/a0k8xe
ukrm: 'where it's "cool" to be stupid!'
myths of islam: http://minilien.fr/a0j5qo

 

It comes easy to Ace, though - actually being there at the time makes
it that much more memorable, apparently.

 

although he does have a tendency to forget the exact names of those
involved.

 

Naah, I had to ask Auvache.

 

What's a misplaced vowel between emperors, eh?