Word: chateau
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...flowered amid the extravagances of 17th century Italy, given its distinctive form by Bernini and Borromini. Yet the more restrained variant that France developed has proved almost as influential, and has inspired countless castles and churches, palaces and gardens. France's first great baroque monument was the chateau of Vaux-le-Vicomte, built between 1656 and 1660. This year, for the first time in centuries, visitors can view Vaux-le-Vicomte in all its oldtime splendor...
...grazing sheep. At the start of the 1960s, it was smaller (pop. 65) and, if anything, more charmingly bucolic than it had been in the Middle Ages. The few visitors to the town, an hour's drive northwest of Cannes, usually came to view its medieval ruins-a chateau, a church, towers and gates that had decayed into an exquisite stone latticework. In 1961, Bargème found a benefactress-or rather, Madame Germaine De Maria, now 56, found Bargème. Their relationship has led to more distress than Bargème has known in several centuries...
...five grandchildren. He has a dachshund named Jason, plays golf most Sunday mornings (in the 80s), and likes the movies enough to queue up with the crowds along the Champs Elysees to see the latest detective flicks or Chaplain classics. Couve is also a connoisseur of wine. His favorite: Chateau-Latour...
After he became Premier, Pompidou and his bubbly wife, Claude, increasingly gave up fancy-dress parties at the Rothschild chateau southeast of Paris and summers with the literati in Saint-Tropez. Instead, for the past two years, the Pompidous have rented a chateau in Brittany, where the water is more bracing. They still spend weekends, however, at their country home at Orvilliers outside Paris or their farm at Cajarc in the south of France. Pompidou reads and tends his rosebushes, his wife practices her horsemanship. In the city, they occasionally go to first nights at the theater and constantly browse...
...French suggested four or five sites for the talks, including the old Hotel Majestic, which served as the Gestapo's Paris headquarters during World War II. More likely?and more remote?is either the Chateau de Champs on the Marne River or the Chateau de La Celle-Saint-Cloud, both set in wooded parks outside Paris...