Word: alphand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Delighting his Harvard audience with his wit and fielding their questions with diplomatic elusiveness, French Ambassador to the U.S. Herve Alphand last night reiterated France's desire to have "an autonomous nuclear force...
...Herve Alphand, the French ambassador to the United States, speaks before the Harvard-Radcliffe tonight on the topic "French Views on Europe and the Atlantic Alliance" at 8 p.m. in burr...
...diplomatic fallout from le grand Charles's lofty isolationism rained down on those two favorites of the New Frontier, French Ambassador and Mme. Hervé Alphand. "Will De Gaulle's action affect the Alphands?" asked Washington Columnist Betty Beale. Apparently not, since the Alphands run what many people consider the only decent French restaurant in Washington. "I think some other French ambassador might be affected socially by what's happened," said the wife of one U.S. official, "but not the Alphands, because they entertain so beautifully." This judgment appeared a little premature. The perfect hosts proved pretty...
...evening began in the candlelit dining room at the French embassy. There, Ambassador and Madame Hervé Alphand were hosts at a dinner and a tableau that was worthy of Da Vinci himself. At the table sat President and Mrs. Kennedy, most of the President's brothers and sisters, France's Minister of Culture André Malraux, Vice President Lyndon Johnson and Lady Bird, the entire U.S. Cabinet, the Ed Murrows, the McGeorge Bundys, the Averell Harrimans, Columnists Joe Alsop and Walter Lippmann, and the National Gallery's Director John Walker...
Porto et Poires. Renowned in Washington not only for her looks and her style, but for her abilities as a hostess, Madame Alphand turned out a dinner that had Francophiles kissing their finger tips in joy. It was, in short, les works: a delicate jole gras from Landes, a filet de boeuf Charolais sous la cendre garni renaissance, accompanied by a profound Chateau Gruaud-Larose en magnum 1952; an unassuming little hearts-of-lettuce salad with mimosa dressing. And for a windup, poires Mona Lisa-poached pears, swaddled in hot chocolate sauce, bundled into a pastry shell-trailed...