Paradis, with her sculpted cheekbones and a body like a chiffoned blade, seems impervious.

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Grierson must hope that like Paradis, his new venture can shed French music's stripy top, beret and whiff of stale garlic.

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For two years in the mid-1990s, he was the world's largest buyer of Hennessy Paradis cognac, the company said at the time.

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On Saturday the veterans visited Le Paradis, where many of their comrades were killed as they made their way to the beaches.

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Still, here is your chance to study the phenomenon that is Ms. Paradis a huge draw in France and, at the time, the beloved of Johnny Depp, who sports a similar set of cheekbones.

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He made his way by candlelight to a door which leads up a stairway to the Rue Paradis, from which it's a short scamper to the Hospices de Beaune, where the nuns hid him.

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Another embarrassment was early Vanessa Paradis.

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