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...spotlights and projectors were copies of treasures from four of the Louvre's main sections: French Medieval, Egyptian, Ancient Oriental and Greco-Roman. It was a sight to glad den any ordinary rider's eye, and even more pleased was the man behind the-innovation. He is André Malraux, Minister of Culture, and his efforts to re furbish the famed museum itself have been nicely complemented by the un derground mini-Louvre. On a private inspection tour, he told a friend: "Art must go down into the streets, and I'm very happy...
French builders have traditionally been plagued by lagging technology, rigid construction codes and indifferent workers. Now even their ancestors seem to be conspiring against them. Almost everywhere the builders excavate for foundations, it seems, they uncover new and exciting archaeological ruins that Minister of Culture André Malraux deems more important than any immediate construction...
...Genet. Last week Barrault interrupted rehearsals at his company's permanent home, the Odéon Theater on Paris' Left Bank, to announce that he had been dismissed as its director. The coup de grâce was administered in a curt letter from his old friend, André Malraux, France's Minister of Culture, who had asked Barrault to take over the theater nine years...
...creations her heart desires in Paris' high-fashion houses. But the designers these days trend more to mass-market ready-to-wears, known as prét à porter-and to more pants, more boots, more chains, more turtlenecks and, of course, more transparency. For his fall collection, André Courrèges' main excitement was a white, rib-knit jump suit, with a tunic for daytime wear and a sequined pants outfit with see-through top for after dark. Not to be outdone, Yves St. Laurent turned out an even more daring evening gown, then produced...
...decided to build himself a château on a tract of land that he owned halfway between Paris and Fontainebleau, he spared no expense. He summoned Louis Le Vau, the leading architect of the day, Charles Le Brun, a painter and interior decorator, and a landscape designer named André Le Nôtre. A special workshop with Flemish artisans was set up nearby at Maincy to execute Le Brun's tapestry designs. The chateau's 105 rooms were furnished with armchairs of Chinese plush and Persian carpets, vermilion and silver vases, crystal chandeliers and gold clocks...