[R] French Curve

[Ken Knoblauch]

>I remember that my father had a French curve: it was a plastic template
>used for drawing which had several smooth edges of varying curvature.
>You could use it to draw a wide variety of curved shapes.  No doubt the
>French called it something else.

Nobody, up and down the corridor here, of age to have used one, could
think of a name, but we looked it up in a universal French dictionary
on the web, and it came up with ``un pistolet''.  

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