As homogenous and prim as some bourgeois Parisian communities seem, none has managed to breed cookie-cutter, church-going citizens like a certain neighboring suburb. Once home to desperate nobles locked in a vicious battle of decadent one-upmanship, presentday Versailles is comparably dull--as though the blue-blooded of today have all agreed to save their time and energy (not to mention money) by dressing, eating, and living exactly alike. It might be refreshing not to have to keep up with the Joneses, but a little healthy competition (other than waiting to see who gets to baby number five first) might be part of what loving thy neighbor is all about.Katherine Ross as Joanna Eberhart. [Online image] 1975.
