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...regain her liberty and her grandeur. Such is my goal, my only goal!" The single sheet on which the 131-word message was written had disappeared. Then, four days after De Gaulle's death, an unidentified Frenchman offered it to a Paris auction expert named Pierre de St. Cyr for $100,000, with the stipulation that the sale be secret and that it be made to a foreigner. Shocked at this unpatriotic profiteering, De St. Cyr informed Delon, who sent for a friend from Buenos Aires. Equipped with his foreign passport and $54,545 of Delon's money...
...slated to be razed next year. Dirty movies and crass, ubiquitous nudity have virtually finished burlesque. A few bawdy old burlesque houses are left, but where they once were a cornucopia of good, smutty fun, now they are mainly a refuge for the pitiful and lonely. Where Lily St. Cyr and Pepper Powell once performed with lavish eroticism, Abba E. Bond and her Gaza Strip and Terry and her Privates now perform grim, grotesque imitations...
Worse, says Looney Lewis: "Some of the top strippers these days are guys with silicone treatment around the hips and chest." Mourns Cece of the flaming tassels: "It will never be the same again. I'll never be a Tempest Storm or a Lily St. Cyr. Burlesque is dead...
...talent. If he had never piloted a plane, for example, how much sweeter the triumph of posing before fawning New York crowds as a returning aeronautical hero. He could not read a word in Le Figaro, but he came on convincingly as a French navy lieutenant named Royal St. Cyr...
...highest-ranking soldier, an acid-tongued officer who was honored for his leadership (commander of French troops in Italy in World War II) but not for his obedience, being constantly at war with authority, whether it was his civilian superiors at the War Ministry or his old St. Cyr classmate Charles de Gaulle, with whom he disagreed on Algeria so bitterly and so often that De Gaulle forced his retirement in 1962; of uremia; in Paris...