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Down at the end of the alley is the Vieux Port. From here Edmund Dantes, the Abbe Faria and other prisoners were taken to Chateau d'If. The prison isn't as romantic looking as Paramount did it for. The Count of Monte-Cristo-but it's all there: The cell where Dantes slept, the cup from which he drank, and for a franc or two you can touch the initials he carved on the wall. Why do such things thrill us? Perhaps it's the secret desire we all have for immortality, for fame. One tourist with horn-rimmed...
...back from Chateau d'If (which takes about forty minutes by boat) I sat next to three girls who looked French but spoke Greek. They praised Dumas' imagination, showed traces of profound interest in the ancient "Massilia" during the Gallo-Roman epoch, then turned girlish and discussed men: Frenchmen were too short, but nice to be gay with; Germans were rough but make good husbands; Englishmen are stiff and cold; Americans are rich-but oh, so very young! Yet how good it would be to meet some men, no matter from where. "Come, Loretta. you are nearest, shall we commence...
...dead of night, as well as morning & evening. He sent her last week a home movie titled I Take Ski Lessons full of spills. Abruptly this week Mrs. Simpson and her Cannes hosts Mr. & Mrs. Herman L. Rogers piled into the royal Buick, sped toward the French chateau country through a rainstorm. All Mrs. Simpson's previous large trunks plus three new ones just arrived from Paris were shipped after her from Cannes. Riviera friends said she planned to look over French châteaux with a view to rental while Edward keeps looking over Austrian castles. Meanwhile...
...Long Island, inland from Manhasset, lies a great and famed 225-acre estate, on a road locally called ''The Irish Channel" from the origin of several large landowners along it. Behind massive iron gates, looming almost as large as the late Otto Kahn's huge chateau down near Huntington, stands a rambling, many-chimneyed Tudor house whose four stories and So rooms contain $2,000,000 worth of the world's greatest paintings, tapestries, porcelains and a large, handsome private chapel. Last week the public learned that next May it may pay admission-for charity...
...Caulaincourt's memoirs were suppressed by his family after his death in 1827, prepared for publication in 1914, hidden in the wall of a chateau during the German invasion, buried in a bombardment, recovered when the chateau was repaired in 1933, first published in France the same year...