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Unhallowed Significance. Between the garden and the town, the tourist passes the ruins of the castle of Illiers, built in 1019 by Geoffroy D'llliers Vicomte de Châteaudun. British Biographer George D. Painter points out that one of the wrecked towers "had an unhallowed significance for Marcel: It could be seen from the lavatory where he would retire whenever he needed privacy to read, weep, or make his first experiments in the pleasures of sex-experiments which were not without their heroic side, since he was not sure at first that their rending delight would...
...miles west of Paris Viscount Paul de La Panouse finds himself beset by too many of the beasts. La Panouse, 27, whose family coat of arms portrays-naturally-a lion, founded a wild-game park three years ago. On the spacious grounds around his family's Renaissance Château de Thoiry, he started out with a score of lions. Obviously French food and the sweeping savannas of the Ile-de-France region agreed with the animals. They proliferated so rapidly that the desperate viscount is now trying to export his surplus. To where? Where else? Africa...
...Heublein Inc.'s third annual wine auction in San Francisco last week, Auctioneer J. Michael Broadbent apologized for being unable to distribute samples of his next offering, Lot No. 56. He did not have to explain why. Lot No. 56 consisted of a single 24-ounce bottle of Château Lafite, vintage 1846, that was described as "quite unfaded and fantastic." After several minutes of quiet, tense bidding, it was sold to Laurence Bender, a 25-year-old officer of Boston's venerable wine and spirits merchants, John Gilbert Jr. Co. The price: $5,000, more than...
...which until recently was reserved by Manhattan's Carlyle Hotel for the exclusive sipping of visiting Presidents. After the headlining items had been displayed by a brocaded, powder-wigged chamberlain and sold, connoisseurs and individual collectors were able to bid on the less celestial vintages: a case of Château la Gaffelière Naudes 1952, a red Bordeaux, was gaveled down...
Wine Future. Heublein reserved about 2% of the stock, part of which was assembled from the private cellars of French château owners, for open tasting, a practice unheard of among European sellers. The samples included several bottles of 79-year-old California Pinot Noir and some Château Mouton Rothschild a year younger...