14 AUGUST 1976, Page 12

Folie des grandeurs Sir: I found your piece 'Games theory

and practice' (31 July) interesting but found your reference to Mayor Drapeau's ./6/ie grandeur unfortunate. This would mean Of anything) that M. Drapeau was trying to make himself bigger. 'Grandeur', in the pejorative sense, has to be used in the plural, a usage which began about 1900.

B. C. Hill Australian Embassy, Dublin