bon vivant

Solomon, not well-known today, was a Harvard-educated bon vivant known for his erudition in new art’s European history.

He was a high-born bon vivant, just like James Bond, and he was the secret intelligence spymaster in France prior to the war.”

He combined the fire of his old boss Molina and the bon vivant verve of Alatorre’s crew to work the picket lines as easily as he did banquets.

Its founder, a bon vivant who once dated the widowed first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, held all the strings, and pulled them in ways that Mr. Kohn often disliked.

He is a diplomat, a fixer, a bon vivant and, thanks to Magimel’s louche charisma, a lost soul whose wandering and dithering carry a hint of pathos.