Word: elysã
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...everyone else. At an intimate luncheon for 40 at the Elys??e Palace, President de Gaulle had only perfunctory greetings for Jean Gavin, wife...
...week ended in Paris on a subdued but distinct note of fear. Albert Petitjean, who runs a small bar off the Champs Elys??es, and who is our favorite average citizen, was outwardly unworried when I asked him this morning how he thought things would...
Premier Pierre Laval and Foreign Minister Aristide Briand emerged from a cabinet meeting in the Elys??e Palace last week in high good humor. A little knot of passersby, a few photographers were waiting for them. The pockets of the Prime Minister's neat blue suit bulged with strange objects. While shutters clicked there were impolite but audible comments on what was in them. A mousetrap? Fromage de Brie? Fishhooks...
Enter Madame Doumer?as the statesmen depart. This good lady declined last week to move at once into the Elys??e. By her actions, not by words, she showed that she thought M. Doumergue during his six years and 117 months of bachelor residence at the Elys??e had been about as good a housekeeper as most bachelors...
...Doumers did not actually move in until the Elys??e had been furiously swept, scrubbed, dusted for two days. After this preliminary assault. General Housekeeper Mine Doumer will lead a frontal attack on the old palace by painters, paperers. floor-waxers, basement-scrubbers, waterspout fixers...