Word: chateauful
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...artists, critics and dignitaries, led by Mme. Georges Pompidou, to attend the opening of the Vasarely Foundation in Gordes, a combination research center and public museum containing 1,500 ; of Vasarely's works. To house the foundation, the city rented " to the painter the massive 16th century Chateau de Gordes for a symbolic one franc a year...
...Hiring a table gives you the privilege of sitting uncomfortably and craning your neck to see the stage, as well as ordering from the Pops wine list. The wine list includes such delicacies as New York Burgundy and just about everything Pastene has ever made, as well as-inexplicably-Chateau Latour, year unspecified. A truly adventurous spirit may even order Pops Punch...
...neither the price nor Buffet's reputation intimidated the flics, who swooped down on the gallery and legally "seized" the painting, forbidding the purchaser from taking it home. They were acting on a court order obtained by Marcel de Marchéville, owner of the 478-year-old chateau. When a man's castle is his home -and is classified a national monument to boot-De Marchéville explained, the law gives the owner the right to say who may paint pictures of it. De Marchéville most emphatically had not granted that permission to Buffet...
...which, Les Trois Soleils, rates four crossed knives and forks in the Guide Michelin. It serves such haute cuisine delicacies as langouste Thermidor, filets de sôle Sainte Marie and bananes flambées an kirsch. The restaurant's cellar, equally impressive, houses a 1929 Chateau Latour ($60 a bottle), a 1949 Chateau Haut Brion ($43), and a goodly supply of 1961 Dom Pérignon at $55 per magnum. Les Trois Soleils offers no entertainment, but "dancing weekends" are a regular attraction at Orly's top-floor Brasserie, where "Les 5 G-Men" pound a beat...
Despite, or because of her upbringing, Pet can barely abide show-biz socializing, and the Wolffs and their two daughters have relocated their home from Paris to a summer farmhouse near Antibes and a $250,000 chateau outside Geneva. "We moved," she explains, "to get away from the 'fun' people." For Pet Clark, the Downtown, rock-around-the-clock days are done...