Word: elyses
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He is remembered as the original of that perennial threat to shaky governments, "the man on horseback." Adoring crowds threw themselves on the tracks at the Gare de Lyon to keep him from leaving Paris. Three hundred songs were written about him, and copies by the thousands were hawked in...
In the name of order and authority, Georges seemed willing to try. What he would not do, as it turned out to everyone's surprise, was risk the disorder of civil war and bloodshed, however brief. When Boulanger was about to be overwhelmingly elected Deputy on a national ticket...
The conference was scheduled for 6 p.m., but the hour came and went and nothing happened. Some reporters wandered about the palace while others went out into the beautiful Elysée garden, which was covered with rich green umbrellas of chestnut trees in the final dazzle of bloom. A...
The visit went well from the start. The mood was so upbeat that on the first day of the meeting, French national radio began its broadcasts with a salute that must have rattled coffee cups from Calais to Cannes: "Good morning," instead of the customary "Bonjour." The newspaper France-Soir...
All told, Heath and Pompidou spent twelve hours in face-to-face talks attended only by translators (the two leaders were also together for two luncheons and one dinner). They ranged over the entire spectrum of Common Market issues. Meeting mostly in the gold-and-tapestried Salon Doré, occasionally...