Word: fontainebleau
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Apparently D'Argenlieu's patience had dwindled after twelve exasperating months in Indo-China. Last week the Vatican announced that he would again become merely Father Louis de la Trinité, retire to a monastery in sylvan Fontainebleau in January...
...retreat from Moscow was over; in a room at Fontainebleau, the defeated Emperor Napoleon meditated suicide. "Preceded by the enormous Cossacks of the Imperial Guard . . . [Tsar Alexander I] rode slowly through the streets. In gaping astonishment the citizens of Paris gazed upon their conqueror. His enormous feet were thrust into stirrups of wrought gold . . . above the gold collar . . . they saw the face of a benignant calf...
Participants in a furious jungle war were finding peace a reluctant prize. Last year the "Republic" of Viet Nam (almost half the size of France), formerly part of French Indo-China, waged a fierce minor struggle for independence from France. At Fontainebleau last week, the French-Viet Nam peace conference broke wide open, seriously endangering France's already tottering colonial policy. Chiefly responsible was Viet Nam's self-styled "President" Ho Chin Minh...
Leon Blum, at the dedication of a monument to Vichy-murdered Georges Mandel in Fontainebleau, came up with a good Gallic symbol of Gallic solidarity: to his political antagonist, Rightist Paul Reynaud, France's Socialist elder statesman gave an unscheduled, non-compulsory buss...
...Robert married Gaby L'Hote, a pretty, brown-eyed Conservatory student who was the daughter of a Marseilles fonctionnaire. Three days after the wedding Robert joined the staff of the American Conservatory at Fontainebleau, and he and Gaby spent three terms with the carefree American students at Louis XV's summer shack...