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In France, a nation of individualists, no one insists on his individualism more than the French motorist. Only a few small towns have speed limits. A motorist may speed down Paris' famed Champs Elysées at 60 miles an hour, if he wants to (and often does). Result...
After the polls closed, first results flickered across luminous screens along the Champs Elysées. Parisians sat in their sidewalk cafés, totting up figures. Radical Premier Henri Queuille stayed up until long past midnight, finally went to bed saying: "As for me, I'm not worried...
Son of a Paris physician, Jean has been dancing almost half his life; too high-strung and restless for school, at 13 he was a "little rat" in the Paris Opera Ballet. He left the ballet to fight with the Maquis during the war. At war's end he...
Always Guests for Lunch. For four years the President has worked and lived behind the pacing Gardes Républicaines in the Elysée Palace on the Rue du Faubourg Saint Honoré, which has housed Bourbons, Bonapartes and 14 Presidents of the Third Republic before him. It takes...
There are always guests for lunch. Through one week the visitors' list may note such diverse personalities as General and Mrs. Eisenhower, a mountain climber just returned from the Himalayas, and the Comtesse de Paris, some of whose husband's Bourbon ancestors resided briefly in the Elysé...