Best Fêtea

The party you can't miss

Everyone will be partying on the Fourth of July in New York. The mobs will be in Battery Park; the nabobs on Governors Island ($10,000 per couple for a glimpse of Presidents Reagan and Mitterrand); the do-wobs aboard the MTV boat with ZZ Top, the stars of the movie American Anthem, and Don Johnson. But where will the snobs, those haute and mighty French who flit between Manhattan and Paris, be when the rockets go up?

Monsieur Marc,First Hairdresser: "We will have lots of flags, and red, white, and blue flowers. I saw Nancy the other night and she said she would touch the red pom-poms of the French sailors and then kiss them on both cheeks."

Louis Malle,film director: ' 'Candice, Chloe, and I plan to be in the South of France, at Le Coual, fishing. I will be singing the 'Marseillaise,' Candice will be humming her national anthem, and Chloe will assume the Statue of Liberty pose."

Andr€ Soltner,chef-owner: ' 'At Lutece, we will have one week of Alsatian food. This is very important to me because Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi, the sculptor of the Statue of Liberty, is Alsatian and so ami."

Beatrice Dautresme,L'Oreal vice president: "I will be very themed in Statue of Liberty. I have been accumulating a collection of pins for months, wonderful pieces of jewelry. Some really beautiful and some kitsch. 1 will be dressed in les couleurs de la liberty. /want to be as close as possible to the Statue."

Eve Labouisse,Mme. Curie's daughter: "We will be in the country, but I'm sure we'll see it on television."

Caterine Milinaire,documentary-video-maker: "I'm filming the Fourth of July in Newport, as it is also Rhode Island's three-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary. The French helped America repel the English there. I am very patriotic on both sides. I have a French passport and an American child. I will wear a red-white-and-blue cockade 1 bought in Williamsburg. I wear it on patriotic days, July fourth and fourteenth. I celebrate both. I am one of the founders of the Center for Celebration, along with seven other celebration artists. Even though I'll be in Newport, I will have set the timer on the VCR to record the celebration for the Statue of Liberty."

Maxime de LaFalaise,stylist for Yves Saint Laurent: "The Statue has a beautiful face, doesn't she? I've forgotten how generous the French were to give it. It's so unlike them, isn't it? I'll serve blueberry pie, pink champagne, and have the women wear white dresses."

Flora Fontana,Regine's P.R.: "On July 5, we will do an homage to the Statue. The French consul general, Andre Gadaud, is honorary chairman. We'll have an auction including a silver Statue of Liberty made in France from the original mold and worth $25,000. We will serve Clicquot La Grande Dame champagne in honor of her. The cost will be $250for two. ' '

Alain Kirili,sculptor: "I will take a plane back and forth between the one in New York and the one in Paris. I will leave the day before so I will be in Paris in the morning, and then at noon I will take the Concorde to New York. I'll just say hello to both of them. You know that the one in Paris has a much more two-dimensional face."

Pauline Trig^re,fashion designer: "I am a heart-and-soul participant. I am all for it, but 1 want you to know, this is a very funny thing I am going to tell you, I do not consider myself French. I am completely Americanized. I have been a citizen since 1942."

Francois Marchand,restaurateur: '7wish I could be on a boat with a Le Relais flag. It would be great publicity."

Cecilia Noah,tennis wife: "Yannick and I will both be abroad. He has Wimbledon, and an exhibition match in Spain on the seventh, so there is no time to fly back and forth. But French friends will go to Guignol's, our restaurant on Varick Street. ' '

Vincent Fourcade,decorator: "I'll be in Bridgehampton probably. There's going to be such a crowd."

Francois Curiel,head of jewelry at Christie's: "I went to school in France right next to the place where the Statue was built. When 1 came to New York ten years ago, the first thing I did was to go on a boat to her and look at Manhattan from her head. I am very aware that the Statue is a French part of America."

Genevieve Faure,decorator: "I'm really not much involved. There is a decorators' show in Southampton, and I have a room there. That is my first priority."

Jacqueline de la Chaume,hobbyist: "1 will certainly not be on a yacht unless I am the captain, because to be on a boat for hours is a disaster. You feel so trapped, and of course you cannot simply get off. I will not be wearing red, white, and blue."

Gisele Masson,restaurateur: "La Grenouille will be open for the first time in twenty-three years. We will have Franco-American food and lots of champagne. We want the cork to pop and make lots of noise!"

Angela Janklow

ALECKO PAPAMARKOU, the increasingly prominent investment broker who gave a dinner for Nancy Reagan at the Metropolitan Museum, has become an American citizen. He says, "1 consider the United States to be the spiritual offspring of classical Greece. I, by birth a modern Greek, feel especially privileged to have become a citizen of this greatest of all democracies and fervently hope to serve this country to the maximum of my abilities."