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Having replaced her late mother at the helm of Monaco's Girl Scouts, Princess Caroline, 26, welcomed a respite from the grown-up pressures that accompany most official duties. She and 56 other Girl Scouts set up camp at the Château de Marchais, the sprawling Grimaldi estate a few miles north of Paris. For the outing, the princess donned appropriate shirt and kerchief and joined in such camp activities as peeling vegetables, doing the dishes and sleeping under a tent Like everyone else. Said Caroline, who was a real scout until age 15: "It was like...
...other countries, more and more Americans are heading for the provinces, where the life can be rich and full and cut-rate. One of the best bargains this year is a stay at some of France's 5,000 châteaux, a few of which are members of chains like the Relais and Châteaux grouping. The 16th century Château L'Esclimont, less than an hour's drive west of Paris, is set among undulating hills inside a walled 150-acre wild park. A balconied apartment, with terry-cloth bathrobes, curtained beds...
...first balloon ascent, hot-air balloons are hot indeed; the original flight will be recreated Sept. 19 at Versailles. Meanwhile the Grand Palais is holding an aviation exhibition, with machines on loan from Washington and Moscow, through August. Hot-air flight is also the specialty of the 18th century Château Cezy, located 90 miles southwest of Paris. Its owner, Englishman Donald Porter, offers fearless vacationers ballooning in Burgundy, a four-day, three-night aerial adventure. Meals and wines are lavish, with matching prices: $1,700 a person for three nights. Guests who prefer water to air can join...
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...first two years of university education. It was announced this spring that the results of next year's bacs would not include the traditional levels of distinction, such as "very good" or "good." To many French educators, watering down the bac is as outrageous as watering down a Château Mouton-Rothschild. Says Guy Bayet, president of the university professors' association: "The bac is the only way you can oblige students to follow a program and acquire basic knowledge. Now that it has been devalued or so-called broadened, all we need...