Shoot alors! as the French might say. Who was that pulchritudinous paparazza, knee to floor, eye to Pentax, fighting for focusing space at Paris' men's ready-to-wear fashion show? It was British Actress Charlotte Rampling (The Night Porter) on assignment for Vogue Hommes. Rampling discovered still cameras two years ago. Since then, she has been shooting whenever she isn't being shot for the movies. "Photography is like a time span of all the people I love and meet," she explains. Due in New York this week to begin work in Woody Allen's next film, Rampling will have to cap her lenses temporarily and leave behind her favorite subjects, Musician Husband Jean-Michel Jarre, their three children and the other Woody in her time span, her cat.

As Maurice Chevalier once sang in bordello baritone to introduce Lerner and Loewe's Gigi, little girls grow up in the most delightful way. Leslie Caron certainly has; 21 years after the movie, the apprentice courtesan has matured into a Parisian Mrs. Robinson enticing or seducing three of her daughter's male school friends in a new French film Tous Vedettes (All Stars). At 48, Caron remains alluringly convincing as Lucille, the French actress who has come home to Paris from Hollywood successes to amuse herself with l'amour. The daughter is played by Kitty Kortes-Lynch, 20, an American actress who looks so much like her celluloid mother that audiences are bound to be fooled. Thank heaven not only for little girls but also for central casting.

The halls of ivy boast two new VIP scions this fall. Reza Pahlavi, 18, oldest son of the deposed Shah of Iran, has enrolled at Williams College. Though shadowed by bodyguards, the Iranian crown prince is trying to be just another Williams Ephman (after Founder Ephraim Williams), even to turning out for intramural soccer. At Brown University, meanwhile, John Kennedy, 18, lolled through an outdoor concert in an open-throat shirt that showed off his handsome physique. Entering Brown, Kennedy forsook his family's longtime ties to Harvard. One explanation was that he wanted to get away from tradition and establish his own identity. Another was that Brown allows students to design more of their own majors than does Harvard.

In diplomacy, what's past is past and sometimes repast. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, raising funds to redo rooms and enhance the antiques in the State Department's elegant eighth-floor reception suite for foreign dignitaries, invited 177 well-heeled guests to a $1,000-a-plate dinner in Foggy Bottom. The appetizers included quail eggs stuffed with caviar and a bipartisan receiving line comprising Vance and his three living predecessors, Henry Kissinger, William Rogers and Dean Rusk. They and the guests sat down to a dinner of rockfish, roast pheasant, oyster plant on artichoke bottoms, wild rice with water chestnuts, salmagundi salad and brie, along with a '76 Pommard and toasts in '69 Dom Perignon. It was a menu that first Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson might have served. But to 177 people? Only if Jefferson too charged $1,000 a plate, most likely.

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