Word: chateau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inheritance windfall and returns to claim it, the stage is set for a showdown that is also something of a letdown. Author Du Maurier stuffs her novel with eccentric servants, eavesdroppers, potential murders, apparent suicides, strangely worded wills. For a romantic setting there is the 17th century chateau of St. Gilles, not unlike Daphne Du Maurier's own sprawling, 70-room Menabilly House on the Cornish coast, great and gloomy original for Rebecca's legendary Manderley. No reasonable Doppelgänger could wish for an eerier home-away-from-home...
...Picassos formerly in her father's collection. In a panic, the Russian embassy dispatched a small black truck to the exhibit, whisked the Picassos off the wall and to safety inside their embassy. Said Comrade Picasso: "After all, what would happen if the Count of Paris claimed the chateau of Versailles...
...nearly a year, in a chateau outside Brussels, a small corps of economists, technicians and bureaucrats have been at work to establish a common market (goods and workers moving as freely as between California and New York) among the six nations-France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg-which belong to the European Coal and Steel Community. These planners have the backing of every government involved, and they mean business. Their plan calls...
...Banal was speaking, in his infantile way. "Do you know Monique has never seen the sea?" Then a woman spoke, Anatole's wife. "Why, that's awful that this poor child has never seen the sea. Anatole, darling, you must take her to our little chateau by the ocean. I won't be able to come because I'm redecorating the town house. But there is plenty of food in the frigidaire, and Monique will be able to see the ocean from the bedroom. Here are the keys." I liked her for that...
Born. To Leopold III, 54, onetime (1934-51) King of the Belgians, and his morganatic second wife, Marie Liliane, Princess de Rethy, 38: a second daughter, third child (his sixth); at their Chateau de Laeken, near Brussels. Name: Maria-Esmeralda Adelaide Lilian Anne Leopoldine. Weight...