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...Château de Thoiry
...correct answer is C, a fact that is sure to dumbfound anyone who visited the museum-like Château de Thoiry prior to 1967-or before the historic building became the center of what must be the most unusual animal farm in the Western world...
...started as a save-a-castle plan. Built in the 16th century in the lush lowlands 30 miles west of Paris, the château has long claimed a treasury of priceless furniture, rare tapestries and a collection of 60,000 documents and letters from kings, ministers and literary figures. Chopin's piano-a gift from George Sand-graced the gilded music room; the original manuscripts of two unpublished Chopin waltzes were discovered in a linen closet...
...kept the mighty roof from leaking, helped wash the 10,000 windowpanes, or prevented the spacious garden from going to weed. "Without a staff of at least 25 persons," says the castle's owner, the Count de la Panouse, "the domain falls apart." To finance the estate, the château was opened to the public in 1966, but the 20,000 visitors it drew that year were not enough to pay the bills. It was the count's son Paul, now 26, who persuaded his father to let him turn one end of the vast grounds into...
Fidel describes the political process in Cuba as "simultaneous construction of socialism and communism." The new ways of acting and reading-what Ch? labeled "the new man" -must be built simultaneously with the new technology and economic structures. Otherwise, in Cuba, neither will succeed. The aim, according to Fidel, is "to create wealth through social awareness and not the other way around...