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...most visitors, jostling their way through the huge crowds in Paris' Grand Palais, Petit Palais and Bibliothèque Nationale, it was more like threading a path through a maze presided over by the commanding, and at times terrifying, 20th century Minotaur. To guide viewers, Paris newspapers were running floor plans, and a TV program highlighted the "100 hinges," or turning points, in Picasso's career. Critics could have doubled that number; yet the overwhelming impression was that, for all of Picasso's protean changes, what is essentially Picasso is now well known...
...have to make your living at it." He is not quite ready for that yet. After his 1951 debut, he won a Fulbright scholarship and went off to Paris to study 15th century musical manuscripts; he still has a few months' work to finish in Paris' Bibliothèque Nationale. Meanwhile, he will make some recordings (for London) and continue to practice four hours a day. After that, he will start in earnest on his piano career...
...Paris, the Bibliothèque Nationale (corresponds to the Library of Congress) limited admissions to 100 scholars at a time. Reason: capacity of the Bibliothèque's bombproof shelter...
...quoting from the memoirs of Barere and de Bachaumont, says that creps was one of the principal games played in the gambling houses of the Palais Royal in Paris in the latter part of the 18th Century. In 1818, long before craps was popular in the U. S., the Bibliothéque Historique referred to "one table of craps" as among the frivolities of the gambling houses of Paris...
...august and dingy walls of the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris guarded last week France's latest peace offering. In the Galerie Mazarine there hung 1,400 portraits of famed contemporary Frenchmen, ready for distribution among 14 leading U. S. universities "to strengthen the ties of friendship and understanding between France and the United States...