Word: elyse
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Bucolic Charm. Mama Proust called little Marcel "mon petit loup," but far from being wolflike, he was a Little Lord Fauntleroy who threw temper tantrums and suffered from asthma. Much of Proust's boyhood had bucolic charm. At Illiers (Combray in the novel), Dr. Proust's home town...
So far Frenchmen were showing a lively curiosity about their leader's health but no alarm (the Elysée Palace issues no bulletins on the President's fitness). He is a man under strain, a man who deliberately isolates himself, unhesitantly separating himself from his supporters as...
Striding one afternoon last week into the gilded Salle des Fêtes of the Elysée Palace, Charles de Gaulle took a seat in solitary grandeur upon an orchestra platform, signaled the beginning of the first press conference ever given by a French President. In the hour that...
Few were prepared to answer him, but the audience nevertheless applauded like a bullfight crowd. Occasion: performance in Paris' Théâtre des Champs Elysées of Orpheus, a ballet set to music by avant-garde Composer Pierre Henry, 31. The performers were members of France'...
Closed Drawer. Old Paratrooper Rayon then met Dr. Lacour at a cafe on the Champs-Elysées, told him Paulo had been strangled and thrown into the Seine. Dr. Lacour passed over 4,000,000 francs, later paid 16 million more. Rayon, as fidgety a hero-villain as fiction...