Word: faubourgs
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Into Paris trooped elegant Alfred Duff Cooper and his exactress wife, Lady Diana, heading a safari of secretaries, clerks and baggage-bearers. They took one look at the Embassy on the rue du Faubourg St. Honoré. The high-ceilinged building had been turned into a warehouse by British subjects, who stored so much furniture in it that the floors will have to be re-enforced before the building can be used again. The Ambassador and his lady moved into a suite at the Hotel Barclay...
Last Nazi bigwig's wife to do her fall shopping in Paris was probably Emmy Göring. She paid a flying visit to her favorite couturiere, Jeanne Lanvin in the rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore, just a fortnight before the Americans came to town...
Meantime he had wormed his way into aristocratic salons of the Faubourg Saint- Germain, gradually built up a reputation as a man of fashion, a wit, a beautiful talker. So great was his renown and his care for it that when he entertained at dinner he would eat beforehand so that his tongue could wag undisturbed. His entrances were timed strategically: just as a gathering was preparing to break up Proust would enter, set the room abuzz with his rapid-fire monolog: "Do you know whether the Due de? stayed on in the boudoir with Mme Z? Could you explain...
...destruction of the Bastille commenced, so last week in all the little hotels of Montmartre the loose ladies of Paris celebrated the destruction of another prison almost as old: St. Lazare, handed over to the wreckers Aug. 9. For 141 years the vermin-ridden prison on the Rue du Faubourg St. Denis, built on the site of the still more ancient leprosery of St. Lazare, has held France's women prisoners, specially harlots. One of St. Lazare's first notable prisoners was Charlotte Corday, bath-stabber of Terrorist Marat. One of its more recent inmates was the equally...
...Pleyel and Erard had merged. Their instruments will henceforth be produced at the Pleyel works (St-Denis). Erard and Pleyel pianos are not the finest made in France (the Gaveau is considered finer). nevertheless they are first-class instruments. Pleyel owns the great modernistic Salle Pleyel in the Faubourg St-Honore...