Word: chateauful
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SURROUNDING the elegant figure of the French painter who calls himself Balthus, there has always been an aura of mystery. He rarely exhibits his work, and he himself lives in virtual seclusion in a gloomy medieval chateau near Autun. He has shunned all of the schools that in successive waves have swept over Paris, but he can claim among his fervent admirers some of the most prestigious names in French art. One admirer is Pablo Picasso, who has a prized Balthus painting of two children in his Vallauris villa. Another is Minister of Culture André Malraux, who three months...
...Chateau, Maxwell...
...memories of the war and occupation years. The Rhodeses are the kind of Americans who think them selves a cut above Americans, other American tourists at any rate. To get beyond the brief cultural encounters of hotels, museums and sightseeing tours, they arrange to spend two weeks at the Chateau Beaumesnil, a lyth century country house 100 miles or so outside Paris...
...CHATEAU (401 pp.)-William Maxwell-Knopf...
Lukewarm Linguistics. Mme. Vienot, the proprietress of the chateau, belongs to an aristocratic clan that has seen richer days, though the Rhodeses do not immediately know that. Their room is pleasant, though not quite as advertised-there is no hot water, and when Barbara complains, a maid appears at odd hours with lukewarm basins. The Rhodeses find the countryside charming, but the people seem unaccountably chilly. Mme. Vienot is brisk, cheerless and not above padding a bill. Her aged mother sits through most of dinner in a glazed reverie. A millionaire guest tells the Rhodeses how much he enjoyed eating...