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Enfin, Harvard Square will have a discotheque.
A discotheque is a French nightclub at which one drinks and dances or listens or watches others dance to recorded popular music.
The two operators of the Cambridge version, to be called "La Discotheque Nicole," promise to furnish "a place where people can dance and relax at the same time." They hope to open by the middle of May in the basement of the Club Henri IV, a French restaurant on Winthrop St.
Nicole Lair, a Parisienne who will be the hostess, said yesterday in her heavily accented English that "a coffee shop is very nice, but what can you do after you finish drinking coffee? I want to make a place that anybody would enjoy coming to--as long as they don't look like beatniks."
John Shepard, who will manage the club, said that he will serve wine, soft drinks, and French cheeses, but no hard liquor.
Asked to comment last night on France's exportation of the discotheque, Lawrence Wylie, C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France, quoted an earlier remark of Stanley H. Hoffmann, professor of Government. "This is France's revenge for chewing gum," he said.
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