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Glaring Omission. For all the insights and meticulous exposition, there is one striking omission. There is almost no reference to President Georges Pompidou, De Gaulle's principal aide during the period covered by the book and his Premier for six years. Some cynics suspect, in fact, that De Gaulle...
Performing before an audience of 700 at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris last week, Violin Virtuoso Jascha Heifetz completed the last segment of a taped, hour-long all-Heifetz TV show that will be aired in the U.S. in April. During a passage...
After the turmoil of the May 1968 riots, De Gaulle is quoted as having remarked to former Interior Minister Christian Fouchet: "We never should have reopened the Sorbonne, never." When Fouchet argued that there might very well have been serious shooting otherwise, Alexandre quoted De Gaulle as replying: "So what...
Alexandre insists that he has carefully and completely verified his book by double-checking each quote with two or more sources. Says Alexandre, who is a distant relative by marriage to Gaullist Defense Minister Michel Debré: "I regretfully had to leave out a great many marvelous bon mots of...
Christo Javacheff is a peripatetic Bulgarian whose art consists of wrapping things-big things. He has previously wrapped the Kunsthalle in Bern, a fountain in Spoleto and the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art. For Christmas, he would like to wrap all the trees on the Champs Elysées, Paris...