Word: colombey
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Dates: during 1947-1947
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...Inner Life. Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle has traveled a long way since he was "born in Lille, 57 years ago, the son of a philosophy professor. He early acquired a love of reading and learning, and at Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, where he has a country retreat 125 miles southeast of Paris, reading is still his main diversion. He reads and rereads the French classics, such writers as Montaigne, Chateaubriand, Victor Hugo...
...life at Colombey is the simple one of a dedicated, single-minded man. He gets up at 8, breakfasts on café au lait, brown bread, a little butter and jam, then tackles his mail and newspapers. The food served at lunch is simple and the wine is an inexpensive vin rosé served from a carafe, but the meal is a leisurely one, lasting one and a half or two hours, and topped off by brandy, cigars and conversation. Malraux or Soustelle is often there, and nearly every top Government man from Ramadier down has been to Colombey...
Days of Fear. Through the days of the Indo-Chinese crisis ran a real thread of fear. Rumors of De Gaulle's return to politics ran through Paris. (It is a fact that he is leaving his retreat at Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises for an apartment in the Boulevard de Courcelles...