![FRENCH FROU AND FROU](/images/headline/5273.png) Parisian publisher does erotica as only the French can. ![](/images/postimg/french_frou_and_frou_01.jpg)
Today we have for your enjoyment an issue of Paris Frou Frou, #46, published in 1956. This was the brainchild of S.N.E.T.P., which decoded is Société Nouvelle D'editions Théâtrales Parisiennes. See, the French understood that smut must wear a fig leaf of intellectualism, which is exactly why we write so much on Pulp Intl. rather than just publish reams of nude photos. Hah, just kidding (did we mention the Pulp Intl. girlfriends are out of town?). The eroticism is just a bonus that comes with all the fiction, film, and art. And it's a bonus that helps our traffic. Anyway, on the cover of this mag is Austrian actress Nadja Tiller, and the rear features a nice shot pairing yanks Lori Nelson and Mamie Van Doren. With a wrapper like that the inside must be nice, and indeed it is. You'll see Sabrina, the one-name star time has forgotten, as well as U.S. nudist model Diane Webber, aka Marguerite Empey. If your memory is very sharp you'll recall one of the same Webber photos appearing in an issue of the U.S. magazine Male from 1958 we shared a while back. Mixed in with the celebs is the usual assortment of Parisian showgirls. We'll revisit Paris Frou Frou later. ![](/images/postimg/french_frou_and_frou_02.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/french_frou_and_frou_03.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/french_frou_and_frou_04.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/french_frou_and_frou_05.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/french_frou_and_frou_06.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/french_frou_and_frou_07.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/french_frou_and_frou_08.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/french_frou_and_frou_09.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/french_frou_and_frou_10.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/french_frou_and_frou_11.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/french_frou_and_frou_12.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/french_frou_and_frou_13.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/french_frou_and_frou_14.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/french_frou_and_frou_15.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/french_frou_and_frou_16.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/french_frou_and_frou_17.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/french_frou_and_frou_18.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/french_frou_and_frou_19.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/french_frou_and_frou_20.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/french_frou_and_frou_21.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/french_frou_and_frou_22.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/french_frou_and_frou_23.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/french_frou_and_frou_24.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/french_frou_and_frou_25.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/french_frou_and_frou_26.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/french_frou_and_frou_27.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/french_frou_and_frou_28.jpg)
![FROU FROU FLIRTATIONS](/images/headline/1453.png) My eyes are up here, cherie. ![](/images/postimg/frou_frou_flirtations01.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/frou_frou_flirtations02.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/frou_frou_flirtations03.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/frou_frou_flirtations04.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/frou_frou_flirtations05.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/frou_frou_flirtations06.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/frou_frou_flirtations07.jpg)
Paris Frou Frou #58, with Jayne Mansfield, Sabrina, Mickey Hargitay, and many unknowns. We’re really starting to appreciate this magazine because it always seems to have at least two or three truly striking images, including, in this case, the cabaret dancers Mitzi and Mimi (mmm... twins) and the back cover, just above. You may be pondering what exactly is a frou frou? While it sounds like a small, furry mammal, possibly with razor sharp teeth, it’s actually an onomatopaeic phrase originally created in French to imitate the swishing sound of a woman’s skirts, and to describe unnecessary showiness (kind of like this sentence). File that definition away in the cobwebbed nook of your brain reserved for truly useless info that might one day win you a point in a pub quiz or prompt someone to label you a metrosexual. See our other Paris Frou Frou here.
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The headlines that mattered yesteryear.
2003—Hope Dies
Film legend Bob Hope dies of pneumonia two months after celebrating his 100th birthday. 1945—Churchill Given the Sack
In spite of admiring Winston Churchill as a great wartime leader, Britons elect
Clement Attlee the nation's new prime minister in a sweeping victory for the Labour Party over the Conservatives. 1952—Evita Peron Dies
Eva Duarte de Peron, aka Evita, wife of the president of the Argentine Republic, dies from cancer at age 33. Evita had brought the working classes into a position of political power never witnessed before, but was hated by the nation's powerful military class. She is lain to rest in Milan, Italy in a secret grave under a nun's name, but is eventually returned to Argentina for reburial beside her husband in 1974. 1943—Mussolini Calls It Quits
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini steps down as head of the armed forces and the government. It soon becomes clear that Il Duce did not relinquish power voluntarily, but was forced to resign after former Fascist colleagues turned against him. He is later installed by Germany as leader of the Italian Social Republic in the north of the country, but is killed by partisans in 1945.
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