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Onetime Gaullist. Born at Marsi-llargues, 80 miles west of Marseille, Defferre took his law degree at Aix-en-Provence, joined the Resistance during the war, served for a time as a Gaullist in North Africa. After the Liberation, Defferre was elected mayor of Marseille, has served continuously in Parliament since 1946, and was a decolonizer long before De Gaulle: the 1956 loi-cadre, giving autonomy to France's African empire, was Defferre's creation...
...Limburger. Germans with weak eyesight flock to Bad Wiessee; those in search of "rejuvenation" swear by Austria's Bad Gastein. Aix (pronounced aches) -la-Chapelle and Bad Oeynhausen offer famed rheumatism cures. Some resorts, such as Baden-Baden and nearby Badenweiler, are known as Gesellschaftsbäder, or social spas, because patrons go there more for the crowd than the cure. Nearly all the spas advertise cures for the capitalist ailment known deferentially as Manager-Krankheit, the manager's disease. Says the owner of Baden-Baden's chic Bellevue Hotel, where Greta Garbo stayed through July without...
Pierre Boulez' best-known work, Le Marteau sans Maitre (Hammer Without a Master), was first performed for a public of more than musical specialists at the 1955 festival in Aix-en-Provence. The critics from the newspapers of Marseille who had come up for the festival reviewed the work. In Rencontres avec Pierre Boulez, Antoine Golea remarks that the critics were "very prudent, as if walking on tip-toes." Probably much of the audience at Friday evening's concert of music by Boulez, Horatio Appleton Lamb Lecturer 1962-63, would have understood their prudence; for whether one reacts initially with...
...remedy for tropical stomach disorders and an antidote for scurvy. Coca-Cola began as a headache remedy. Biotherm, a popular European secret beauty preparation that is now spreading to U.S. cosmetic counters, was born when a French physician discovered plankton on the water of his sulphur bath at Aix-les-Bains. The first four-gallon barrel of Worcestershire sauce brewed up in Lea & Perrins' chemist shop tasted so bad that it was relegated to the cellar; only later was it retasted and found appealing (the length of time it sat is part of Lea & Perrins' secret...
Wonderful things happen (sometimes) when a painting gets stolen. Last year the City Art Museum of St. Louis lent its $150,000 Cézanne. The Artist's Sister, to the museum at Aix-en-Provence in southern France, only to have it purloined in a comic-opera art theft. Last week St. Louis' Cézanne was back and on display, and worth $75,000 more than before...