Show MONUMENTS IN FRANCE FRANCE Cooking is not an nn sated art in France Trance Your French Frenchman man man likes his cats eats and honors those who ho purvey them lie He does more He lie is not unwilling to raise statues to them with Just as ready enthusiasm as he bo docs to his states statesmen men hIs bis poets and aad his Ws dramatists Strasbourg has for long had Us its its its' monument to Maitre Close who in in- invented invented invented vented a peculiarly delightful form of pate rate do foie roie gras In the little littletown littletown littletown town of Camembert they have haye a II statue to to that clever woman oman Marie Marje Harel Hare who named a famous amous cheese after her native nativo town And now Belley Delley has just unveiled a monument to The latter was not a a. cook Ho lIo invented no new food But Dut he was the phi phi- philosopher philosopher and the prose poet of eat cat leg ing When he died he thought he would be remembered as politician or soldier or hunter or musician or magistrate But Dut fate intervened A book which was as published ed art aft after arter at t er her death made ma o his bis name dear to Frenchmen It was a IL wise and witty volume about eating and anti drinking It celebrated the tho joys of ot orthe the table It described dishes with a gusto that Inspired a good ap petite Hence the epicure of Bel ley Icy la is now an nn Immortal of or Belley Delley |