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Will 'Fifty Shades of Grey' Excite the French?

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What will France, the country that spawned the author Marquis de Sade, from whom the term "sadist" derives, make of the S&M novel "Fifty Shades of Grey"? Also on the programme, we go "To The Arctic" with Meryl Streep, and author Cara Hoffman talks about her book "So Much Pretty", which brings the issue of sexual violence into the public conversation.

CULTURE
By Eve JACKSON
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