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...Paris cocktail party in 1950. She hired him as her escort at $1,000 a month, had his crown and her initials engraved on her handbags, and since he had a flair for designing clothes, Winnie set him up in the Boutique Nicky on Paris' fashionable Faubourg St.-Honor...
...despair of his security staff. His personal bodyguard consists of only two "gorillas," whose shoulders seem to slope down from their ears. But dark blue police vans are positioned on side streets around the Elysée Palace, and apartments above the chic shops along the Rue du Faubourg St. Honore facing the palace are periodically searched. When De Gaulle is at Colombey, up to 100 gendarmes are sometimes disguised as farm hands and posted around the village. At the rambling estate in Colombey, De Gaulle gets a measure of the family life and relaxation he misses so much...
...signature, producing a feeling of wavering between keys. He would try anything: a friend from the conservatory recalls Debussy's seating himself at the piano and banging out a succession of grinding dissonances as he attempted to imitate the sound of buses rumbling over the cobblestones of the Faubourg Poissoniere. But more important than the technique was the reticence that he restored to concert halls long accustomed to the thunders and tempests of Beethoven and Wagner. No composer spoke with more intense feeling than Debussy-or in a quieter voice...
After Batala's first "death" his employees form a cooperative to run the press and publish Lange's magnum opus, Arizona Jim. The faubourg rejoices. Renoir illustrates the new freedom by continuing the visual symbolism of the street-building flux. Lange's invalid brother is living in a room whose windows are blocked by one of Batala's billboards. The new regime tears down the poster and Lange's brother looks out onto the street for the first time...
Where & What to Buy. One of the finest shopping streets in Europe is Paris' Rue Faubourg St. Honoré, home of such couturiers as Lanvin and Cardin as well as Hermès-a combination of Mark Cross and Abercrombie & Fitch-where expensive leather goods are made on the premises (e.g., an $80 copy of a handbag for Princess Grace of Monaco...