Shadow Falls On France's Leading Light Best Known As Bhl, Bernard- Henri Levy has Been the Intellectual Darling of French Society for Years. But Now the Knives Are Out, Reports Hugh Schofield in Paris
Sunday Herald › January 13, 2005
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IN France the cult of the personality and the cult of the intellectual have met for a quarter of a century in the form of a dashing highbrow with raven hair and a reputation as the country's leading modernday philosopher.
Bernard-Henri Levy is one of a handful of French public figures who are so famous they are known by their initials.See the full content of this document
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Shadow Falls On France's Leading Light Best Known As Bhl, Bernard- Henri Levy has Been the Intellectual Darling of French Society for Years. But Now the Knives Are Out, Reports Hugh Schofield in Paris
Drooled over by the popular press and courted by the qualities, he is a friend of politicians, artists and tycoons.
BHL is one day pontificating on a TV panel, the next hobnobbing with Afghan guerrillas, and the next posing in trademark white shirt (open to the navel) by a ...See the full content of this document
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