Word: elyses
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IT was the same elegant ballroom in which Charles de Gaulle had twice scuttled British applications for entry into the Common Market. Appropriately, many of the journalists who had witnessed those historic pronouncements were among the 300 newsmen who gathered at the Elysée Palace one evening last week...
The young Stravinsky's artistic calling card was a bombshell: The Rite of Spring, a sophisticated evocation of primitive myths and energies completed in 1913. Conductor Pierre Monteux recalled that when he first heard the composer run through it on the piano, bobbing up and down to accentuate its...
In the end, both his nation and the world sensed the magnitude of their loss. At the tiny country churchyard where he was buried and along Paris' Champs-Elysées, hundreds of thousands of Frenchmen paid him homage. The world's dignitaries journeyed to Paris for a...
De Gaulle's narrow victory in the 1965 presidential election should have warned him that his popularity was not boundless. He shrugged off the growing disorders in early spring of 1968 to fly off for a chat with Rumania's Nicolae Ceauşescu. While he was being...
Always, De Gaulle deported himself according to the stern precepts of leadership he laid down in 1934 in a small book called The Edge of the Sword. "Nothing demonstrates authority better than silence," he wrote. "There can be no prestige without mystery, for we have little reverence for that which...