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...student in Paris, sons of French novelist, art expert and Cultural Affairs Minister Andre Malraux and his late second wife, Novelist Josette Clotis; when a car driven by the older brother struck a tree on their way back to Paris after a Mediterranean holiday; near Dijon...
...shown through-and a purification service was held after he had left. The church even succeeded in spiking one of the anticipated triumphs of the Agitprop men-Nikita's scheduled meeting with Canon Félix Kir, the 84-year-old priest who doubles as mayor of Dijon and is an Independent Deputy in France's National Assembly...
...Independents," Canon Kir is a much-decorated, bullet-scarred hero of France's World War II Resistance, during which he helped more than 5,000 French prisoners escape the Germans. He spends little time in the mayor's office, can more often be found directing Dijon's traffic, perched at the top of a fireman's ladder, or passing the time of day in a workers' bistro. Convinced that Khrushchev's professed desire to end the cold war must be taken at face value, the canon weeks ago announced that...
Fortnight ago, after his bishop sternly forbade him to receive Nikita, Canon Kir reluctantly agreed to obey. But neither church nor state had any real confidence that the canon could resist if Nikita came to call. Accordingly, on the morning of the day Khrushchev was due to arrive in Dijon, two police cars pulled up in front of Canon Kir's house and hustled the furiously gesticulating priest off for a long drive in the country...
...plot, for those who are interested, concerns a simple, but unhappy wife, married to a simple, but unappreciative husband who is a newspaper editor in Dijon. She deserts him first for Paris, then for a lover, and finally for her true love. The moral of all this seems to be that love's laurels go to the physically...