Although Gigi is ill at ease in the flattering gowns purchased for her by Alicia, when Gaston returns she tries one on for him. While Gaston is away resting in Monte Carlo, Gigi visits Alicia's daily, but her great-aunt is discouraged that Gigi remains too immature to appreciate her lessons. Alvarez nevertheless reluctantly accepts her sister's advice. Alvarez is summoned by Alicia, who scolds her for accepting Gaston's invitation to Trouville when Gigi has not been properly prepared.Īghast at the suggestion that Gigi is old enough to be groomed for a romantic alliance with Gaston, Mme. Alvarez and the two reminisce about their romantic past.

Honoré, who has also come to the seaside, is startled to find Mme. At Trouville, Gaston accompanies the exuberant Gigi on the beach, playing tennis and riding burros. Alvarez's protests, and admits that he has more fun with Gigi than anyone else. When Gigi wins the game, Gaston gallantly agrees to fulfill his part of the wager, despite Mme. Alvarez convinces Gaston to pass up a party with two hundred guests at the Eiffel Tower, Gigi offers to play cards with him and bets that if Gaston loses he must take her and her grandmother to Trouville. Arriving one evening bearing chocolates and champagne, Gaston reveals that he will soon be going to Trouville-by-the-Sea. Gigi and her grandmother follow Gaston's subsequent revelries through the society newspaper columns and several weeks pass before he visits them again.

Honoré then encourages Gaston to attend all of the upcoming fashionable parties in order to show that the break-up has had no effect on him. Taking Gaston's brand new automobile, the two men follow Liane to Honfleur where Gaston pays the skating instructor to leave Liane, then rebukes her in a restaurant and declares their association over. When Gaston hints that he will end his relationship with Liane through a note, Honoré insists that the break-up must be in keeping with Gaston's stylish reputation.

The next morning Gaston tells Honoré that he is deeply insulted to have learned from private detectives that Liane is secretly seeing her skating instructor. That evening while dining with Liane and Honoré at Maxim's restaurant, Gaston realizes that despite Liane's effusive attentions, her thoughts are elsewhere. Gigi startles Gaston when she declares that she finds Liane common and coarse. Delighted by Gigi's guileless nature, Gaston invites her for a glasé at the skating rink, where his current lover, Liane d'Exelmans, is taking skating lessons. Confused about what eating, jewelry and tobacco have to do with art, Gigi heads home and runs into Gaston, who has been visiting Mme. After showing Gigi how to distinguish fine cigars, Alicia reminds her niece that everything she is learning has a purpose and admonishes her to remember that love is an art. Gigi concedes she is aware that the women in her family are unusual in that they never marry, but remains puzzled by it.Īlicia then advises Gigi of the importance of recognizing expensive jewelry and cautions her never to accept second-rate baubles or men. When Gigi laments that she is never allowed to accept invitations and has no friends, Alicia explains that she is not to mingle with ordinary people who live ordinary lives. Meanwhile, at her weekly etiquette lessons with her regal great-aunt Alicia, Gigi struggles to stifle her natural buoyancy while learning about the intricacies of dining. Alvarez, Gigi's grandmother and guardian. To Honoré's surprise, Gaston admits the only place that he can relax is at the modest flat of Honoré `s former paramour, Mme. Later, Honoré meets his elegant nephew Gaston, the wealthy heir to a sugar empire, who declares his weariness at being the center of Paris society. In 1900 Paris, Honoré Lachaille, elderly connoisseur of beauty and fashion, strolls through the Bois de Bologne, appreciating the splendor of youth personified by spirited school girl Gigi Alvarez.

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