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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Divorced. By André Marty, 66, a skull-breaking ringleader of French Communism for 33 years (and Comintern secretary 1935-43) until he was raked over the Kremlin's coals and expelled from the party last year for "fractionalism": Ray-monde Marty, 53 after five years of marriage; in Paris, after he testified that she walked out on him on Politburo orders...
...Versailles is now saved," beamed André Cornu, French under secretary of state for fine arts. Calling in Paris newsmen he triumphantly announced that the money had finally been raised to start a major restoration job on the famous old palace which has long been in seedy disrepair (TIME...
...Paris, André François-Poncet, 65, prewar French Ambassador in Berlin and Rome and now High Commissioner to West Germany, faced one of the toughest diplomatic chores of his career. As a newly elected member of the French Academy, he had the traditional duty of eulogizing the man to whose seat he had been elevated: the late Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain. He spent four months polishing his speech. The result left his fellow academicians, used to nimble-tongued exhibitions, applauding with admiration. Sample pirouette: "Some of the pages which Marshal Pétain wrote...
...small office last week, André Schoeller ruled a Corot, a Monet and a Renoir all frauds. A wealthy woman had brought him her latest purchase: 2,000,000 francs' worth of "genuine old masters," likewise all frauds. And he reported to a group of heirs, who supposed they had a fortune in Van Goghs and Cézannes: "Not a single genuine Cézanne or Van Gogh in the lot." But he was able to offer a consolation: he ruled them "all good examples of the French school of the 19th century." Thanks to the prestige...
...never intruded into Pinay's leather business or crossed the mayor's desk at St. Chamond. But he tucked those toward the rear of his mind, to concentrate on the one problem which his Frenchness told him was closest to the center of France's illness. André Siegfried once remarked of the petit bourgeois that "his heart is on the left, but his pocketbook is on the right." Pinay built his policy as Premier around one object-the Frenchman's pocketbook...