Word: auteuil
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Sometimes it was wonderful. There was Paris after World War I, when "everyone" came to the Eisenhowers' apartment on the Rue d'Auteuil to have a drink, sing old songs, laugh, and refight the war, and when the nearby Seine bridge was known as "Pont Mamie." But there was also Panama in 1922. Mamie had just lost her three-year-old son, "Little Icky," and was expecting her second. She found herself living amid the damp, stifling tropical heat in an ancient and stilt-supported house. There were bats in the rafters, and tarantulas crept out of cracks...
...been a successful hostess in Paris by acting, in many ways, just about as she did in the late 19203, when the Eisenhower apartment on the Rue d'Auteuil-occupied while Ike served with the American Battle Monuments Commission -was known as "Club Eisenhower" to their friends, and nearby Mirabeau Bridge as "Pont Mamie...
President and Mme. Vincent Auriol cast their ballots in downtown Paris amid the pop of photographers' flashbulbs, then hustled off to the Auteuil horse races. Grey-suited De Gaulle, as dour as usual, voted in a schoolhouse in his home village of Colombey-les-deux-Eglises. Premier Henri Queuille, symbol of the Third Force, voted before TV and newsreel cameras in his constituency in central France, then flew back to Paris to watch the count...
Private Life: Prefers his modest apartment in Paris' Auteuil quarter, but spends most of his long working days at his official residence, the Hotel Matignon. He and his wife Anne have two married daughters, six granddaughters. His favorite relaxation: walking on the Breton seashore...
...jammed into the Colombes Stadium, outside the city, to watch Lille and the Paris Racing Club play to a 3 to 3 tie. "To hell with politics!" shouted French Dramatist Jean de Beer, one of the watchers. "This is the kind of thing we live for." Crowds at the Auteuil race track were not so elegant as before the war (definitely fewer grey toppers), but just as large...