Word: besangon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...town of Besangon in eastern France, some of the world's best-known batons were wagging last week. Besangon's annual International Music Festival had invited conducting stars such as Pierre Monteux and Andre Cluytens. But the attention of most festival goers was focused on a tanned, tense young newcomer: 28-year-old American Conductor Lorin Maazel...
While the public debate continued, Preacher Mathiot stood in the dock in a small, jampacked Besangon courtroom. Also on trial: Francine Rapine, 21-year-old Catholic student who had acted as Si Ali's secretary (police proved that Si Ali had organized a local cell). To the court Mathiot explained his motives: "A hunted man is a hunted man. A wounded man is a wounded man. He was wounded mortally. He begged for the safety of a presbytery in the name of Jesus Christ . . . There is hope in an act of love. I acted as a Protestant pastor...
...months before he died of Hodgkin's disease, at 33, Rumanian-born Pianist Dinu Lipatti played for the last time in public, at the 1950 International Festival in Besangon, France. To keep the date, he overrode his doctor's and his wife's pleas not to play, was fortified with drugs. Close to fainting at the keyboard, he had to omit the last brief selection on the program, Chopin's Waltz No. 2 in A Flat. Now, in a 2-LP Angel album, record buyers can listen to that last amazing recital and sample the artistry...
When the Reds Lose. Founder of Odette's and Andree's order is a jolly, beet-cheeked priest named Marcel Roussel, 45. Son of a prosperous village baker in the Jura mountains, a parish priest in Besangon when World War II broke out, Abbe Roussel served in the French artillery, then left his parish at war's end to reach out to the Godless poor in France...
Died. Dr. Julien Besangon, 90, celebrated French specialist in longevity, who attributed his own long life to "wine, women, and tobacco"; of a heart attack; in the Paris apartment of his longtime friend, Hélène Oliveires, 51, whom he once described as "a woman who asks no questions, and knows how to dress and please...