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Word: elyse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Workout in the Gym. Last year, with his father's backing, he launched the tabloid, twelve-page L'Express, hoped to "find a formula which would be a sort of cross between TIME and the [London] Economist. Servan-Schreiber has not hit that formula yet, but he has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Man with a Mission | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

The burghers of France had reason to detest La Pompadour. The flowers in her many gardens "were renewed every day, as we renew them now in a room" (the greenhouses at Trianon alone held 2,000,000 pots). At her town house in Paris, she thought nothing of taking "a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Fan for Pompadour | 6/7/1954 | See Source »

France's greatest holidays-the ninth anniversary of V-E day and the feast day of Joan of Arc. There was little rejoicing on the gaily beflagged, sunshiny boulevards, but neither was there much demonstration. On the V-E holiday, police lined the Champs Elysées to protect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Veil of Mourning | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

The Ministers of France gathered one morning last week in the President's Elysée Palace to hear a crucial report from the Minister of Defense, just back from the Indo-China battle fronts. The military situation is not critical, reported René Pleven, but it is discouraging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE COLD WAR: Controversy Ended? | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

The French have a practical way of changing Presidents. The President-elect, René Coty, will not start his term until Jan. 17. But he has already set up an office in the Elysée Palace (although still living in his apartment on the Quai aux Fleurs), and each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Dear Compatriots | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

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