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...where he got to know some of the city's first families, the American major soon became a familiar figure at chateau parties and hunts. After the French Ministry of the Interior awarded him the honorific Croix de Chevalier de l'Ordre du Merite Civil for promoting Franco-American relations, Desist's local reputation zoomed along with his popularity. He had found a home. When he retired from the Army last year, Desist decided to settle down near Orléans, and took a job with a metallurgical concern...
Withdrawn and hurt, Charles de Gaulle brooded for two days in his Colombey chateau. Then he descended on Paris by helicopter to inform his Cabinet and the nation that "Naturally, [ will be present on December...
GREAT TAPESTRIES, edited by Joseph Jobe. 278 pages. Edita, S.A. $22.50. In medieval times, tapestries were functional: they hid the bleak stone expanses of chateau walls, and their woolen thickness helped keep out the cold. But utility can lead to art, and the art of weaving came to its finest flower in the textured murals that are sumptuously spread through these pages with such fidelity that the beholder wants to touch them. The book's first three sections explore the history of tapestry weaving, a history still being written by those-among them...
...million of its shareholders' money in such tangibles as vending machines, trailer trucks and real estate. Last week Thomachot roved the Riviera for what Algeco calls the "investments of the future"-land that can be made into marinas, golf clubs and vacation villages. Algeco already manages a three-chateau country club outside Paris, an all-year golf course in Lavandou and a 1,500-yacht marina in the bay of Saint-Tropez. Not long ago, it began selling individual lots in France to investors for $600 apiece, then constructing garages, apartments and office buildings on the lots...
Surprisingly, few swappers ever feel swindled. Because location and savings are the principal considerations, a twobedroom flat in midtown Chicago might be considered fair exchange for a 30-room chateau in France. And with their own houses being held as collateral, few vacationers are apt to tear their temporary homes apart. Explains Mrs. Jeannette Spensley, who traded her six-room Albuquerque home for three rooms in Torrance, Calif.: "There's a kind of adventurous spirit among those of us doing this. You put your trust in people, and they in you. It's the golden rule taking potluck...