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...eventuality seemed distant. After a midweek Cabinet meeting, Government Spokesman Joseph Comiti, who also happens to be a surgeon, said that the President was in "very great form." But then he added that Pompidou was leaving Paris immediately for a week's holiday at his country home in Cajarc, near Toulouse. Was he ill? "Well," said Comiti, "he would not be resting at Cajarc if nothing were wrong with him. Everybody is ill from time to time." Trailing Pompidou's limousine on the road to Cajarc was an ambulance...
Benefit Appearance.Pompidoumean-while has begun acting like a campaigner. He and his ash-blonde wife Claude no longer vacation with the Côte d'Azur dolce vita set. Instead, they visit the staid Atlantic Coast or their country home at Cajarc in Lot, where Pompidou is photographed talking to the peasants. At the same time, he is subtly disengaging himself from unpopular De Gaulle positions. Though he agreed with the Israeli embargo, he did not like De Gaulle's innuendo that Jews unduly influenced the French press. Pompidou also believes, in light of Russian intransigence over Czechoslovakia...
...chateau southeast of Paris and summers with the literati in Saint-Tropez. Instead, for the past two years, the Pompidous have rented a chateau in Brittany, where the water is more bracing. They still spend weekends, however, at their country home at Orvilliers outside Paris or their farm at Cajarc in the south of France. Pompidou reads and tends his rosebushes, his wife practices her horsemanship. In the city, they occasionally go to first nights at the theater and constantly browse through the galleries for new paintings. Those that are not at the Matignon decorate their six-room, Louis...
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