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...Chemin de Per. In Lisbon, after hushing up for years a 4:29 a.m. train that takes gamesters back to town every dawn from the gambling resort of Estoril, the Sociedade Estoril railroad decided to come clean, put it in the timetable...
...Island. By that time, Traitor Esterhazy was safe in England, where he survived to an obscure old age in a boarding house in a slum quarter of London. After Dreyfus was exonerated, he served one year, retired, then came out of retirement to fight with distinction at Chemin des Dames and Verdun in World War I. He died in Paris in 1935, aged...
...that are always impeccably elegant, and 47-year-old Renée Massip's La Regente is a sensitive psychological study of an unhappy girl and a domineering mother. French women writers, as diverse in personality as in subject matter, range from glamorous Silvia Monfort, 30, whose Droit Chemin is about a professor who tries to command people as he commands ideas, to Danielle Roland, 38, the retiring wife of a physician, who wrote a moving fantasy (L'Huissier et le Sergent) of a Milquetoast dreaming about strength...
...four years before his death, Cézanne built a studio on the Chemin des Lauves, half a mile noth of Aix, commanding a fine view of the town and the surrounding mountains. Cézanne painted most of his last pictures in this studio. This week Cézanne's old studio, purchased and restored by an international committee, was formally opened as a museum and memorial to the French Master...
...lost, he laughed too. Croupiers, whom he often left hoarse and groggy after all-night sessions, had a nickname for the huge, lusty man who puffs eight-inch cigars and gambles with machine-like energy-they call him The Locomotive. In one week The Locomotive lost $160,000 at chemin...