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A nationwide smoking ban went into effect in France, yet another blow to the stereotype of the French as a nation of louche but intellectual libertines, Jeanne Moreau and Alain Delon lounging in bed discussing Heidegger through a fug of cigarette smoke. Ah, ou sont les Gitanes d'antan? Before the health nuts tighten their grip on La Belle France to a stranglehold, though, we should like to remind everyone that the oldest person who ever lived--at any rate, whose dates of birth and death are so impeccably chronicled that no one could doubt her age--was a Frenchwoman, Mme. Jeanne Calment of ...