Word: connoisseurs
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...other hand, someone paid $48,000 for a small Louis XVI table. In the past year, the prices of Flemish, French and Italian Renaissance tapestries have doubled; in the past two years, the price of French 18th century furniture has quadrupled. And for the housewife or hot-dog connoisseur who really cares, a niche a chien made for Mark Antoinette brought $15,375 in Paris, and a Cézanne watercolor, Panier de Fruits, went for $16,000 in New York...
...Riot Connoisseur. De Gaulle has managed to reduce the potency of French extremists. Even as the two men conferred, a few hundred demonstrators, led by Jacques Soustelle, marched down the Champs Elysees crying "Algerie Française!" and "Bourguiba assassin!" Most Parisians watched with indifference and went their way. One cafe waiter, a veteran connoisseur of Parisian riots, said contemptuously, "This is the merest caricature of a demonstration...
David Kirkpatrick Este Bruce, 62, Ambassador to Britain. The only diplomat ever to hold the top three ambassadorships in Europe-to France, Germany and Britain-Bruce has also won repute as a politician, industrialist, soldier, spymaster, wine connoisseur and art devotee...
Preparing for her new role, Jackie has been reading every available book on the White House, is "riveted" by the multitudes of facts that are giving her a connoisseur's knowledge of the place. The shortcomings of the household budget astound her ("It's stone broke, this White House"). She hotly denies the story that she will hang modern paintings everywhere: "The White House is an 18th and 19th century house, and should be kept as a period house. Whatever one does, one does gradually, to make a house a more lived-in house, with beautiful things...
Despite the lack of encouragement from T. S. Eliot, young Betjeman persisted. He haunted bookshops, became a passionate connoisseur of church architecture, a champion of the Victorian and other obsolescent styles. At Oxford he went through a lot of his father's money but did not get his degree, because, with all his love of churches, he failed in divinity...