11.   One is the French actress Juliette Binoche, who promotes a new Lancome fragrance, Poeme.

12.   Only French actresses, it seems, can get away with acting that is so minimalist and so doggedly inscrutable.

13.   Over tea, Huppert projects the aloofness and mild arrogance that we often expect from serious French actresses.

14.   QUESTION OF IMAGE, AND LEGAL BILLS A magazine for lesbians has changed its name from Deneuve because of a lawsuit by the French actress, Catherine Deneuve.

15.   Romane Bohringer, a young French actress, is the undisputed center of attraction.

16.   The film, which stars Ethan Hawke and French actress Julie Delpy, is hardly soppy sentimental.

17.   The French actress had sued the magazine, which focuses on lesbian life, for using her name in its title without permission.

18.   The list of French actresses working on both sides of the Atlantic is even longer.

19.   The lustrous French actress joins a long line of European stars who have given in to temptation and allowed themselves to be molested by Hollywood.

20.   The veteran French actress Suzanne Flon appears as La Maitresse, the empathetic schoolteacher who has known Jojo since he was a child.