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Rameau was born in Dijon in 1683. He studied in Italy, the wellspring of baroque art, then bumped around France as an organist before finally settling in Paris about 1722. Rather late in his career--he was 50--he turned to opera and found his real metier. The opera-ballet Les Fetes d'Hebe, subtitled Les Talents Lyriques, received nearly 400 performances beginning with its premiere in 1739, gradually fading from the repertory in the decade following the composer's death...
...Contender Francois Mitterrand as a captive of the Communists. "From now on," Giscard told his supporters in Dole, "whether he wants to or not, whether he knows it yet or not, Monsieur Mitterrand is also speaking on behalf of the Communists." Warming to this theme at a rally in Dijon, Giscard declared that "if Mitterrand is elected, it will be Commu nist order or Socialist disorder...
...courageously accompanied him to Algiers. Preferring to live in the shadow of her husband, she avoided publicity and spent much of the past decade gardening and doing charitable work in the quiet seclusion of La Boisserie, the family's country home in Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, north of Dijon...
...food, the wine and the sights complement each other. Châteaux and churches along the wine route from Dijon to Beaune are open all day and illuminated at night. Vestiges of the mother of medieval abbeys-the Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul at Cluny, established in 910?still stand. Cluny, together with the 11th century Church of St. Philibert at Tournus and that acropolis of Middle Ages Christianity, the Basilica at Vézelay, along with Burgundy's 505 other churches, are among Europe's great treasures of romanesque architecture...
Underdog began its career selling varieties of Hebrew National hot dogs--plain, with cheese and bacon (the blasphemy), stuffed into a fresh French bread with Dijon mustard (the sauci), and so on. Then it began to expand its repertoire, at the request of the pinball regulars...