Word: chateau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hotel Matignon and got into another car. Half an hour later Pierre Pflimlin, who was completing his 13th day as Premier of France, walked into the Château de La Celle-Saint-Cloud, a government-owned residence in the Paris suburbs. Waiting for Pflimlin in the chateau was the looming, angular figure of General Charles de Gaulle...
...risks. In the minds of some Frenchmen, De Gaulle's soft sell and his insistence that he must be invited to power reawakened a longstanding suspicion that "le grand Charlie" lacked the capacity to be either an effective democrat or effective dictator. "After all," mused a dentist in Chateau-Thierry, "De Gaulle had the country in his hands in 1945 and couldn't run it. We need somebody who is better at politics." But on the minds of many Frenchman, De Gaulle's tactic of moderation seemed to have its effect. It might not make them yearn...
...Pont Show of the Month: Weaving through a French chateau, London's Old Bailey, a revolutionary Paris square with guillotine, and some 30 other sets, cutting from love duets to orgies of hate, CBS gave Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities a revival that all but burst out of the TV screen. The play roiled with revolutionary turmoil, rang with Dickensian speeches by such able players as Denholm Elliott in the role of Charles Darnay, Rosemary Harris as his wife, Eric Portman as Dr. Manette and Agnes Moorehead, who played Madame Defarge as if the revolution depended...
...gypsy who paints geometric designs and says his "ambition is to speak the truth ... A red circle is not the sun. It is a red circle." ¶ Bernard Buffet, who once used his mother's torn sheets as canvases, has had the most spectacular success, now owns a chateau and a Rolls, says "wealth aids my creative spirit; poverty does not necessarily help genius." A painter of contorted, distorted, sad human beings, Buffet is as disillusioned and almost as popular in France as his friend, Novelist Francoise Sagan (see MILESTONES). The opening of his recent retrospective show in Paris...
Visitors to the chateau of Cirey came away so dumfounded that they could scarcely summon the strength to repeat everything they had seen and heard. One of them, arriving in broad daylight. claimed that he was led by a servant carrying a lantern through a succession of cavernous, shuttered rooms until a door opened into a brilliant drawing room lit by 20 candles. Here sat Emilie, Marquise du Chatelet, surrounded by scientific instruments and glittering "with diamonds like an operatic Venus." Above, "weaving spells" at the head of a secret staircase, sat "the Magician" who was Emilie's lover...