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Roland Dumas had it all. Suave, wealthy and well connected, the silver-haired lawyer, art collector and bon vivant reveled in a life of power and influence. Picasso and Giacometti were his clients. His long list of female conquests included opera singers and models. His best friend was the late...
The conundrum of the man is that he did not seem savage at all. Before fleeing into the jungle in 1963, the French-educated son of prosperous landowners, born Saloth Sar, taught school in Phnom Penh, and his former students remember him as a soft-spoken, even-tempered man who...
The couple, identified only as Francois and Valerie, had entered the riverfront expressway just west of the tunnel where the accident took place. They were immediately passed by an Uno whose driver, described as a brown-haired "European type" in his 40s, behaved "abnormally." He zig-zagged, kept turning around...
Under interrogation, the owner told police he was a dog handler for a private security company. At the time of the accident, he said, he had been on assignment as a night watchman in the western suburbs of Paris; he arrived at work on the evening of Saturday, Aug. 30...
On Sept. 19, 1783, at Versailles, the first aeronauts--a sheep, a rooster and a duck--take to the sky in the Montgolfier brothers' hot-air balloon. On Nov. 21, Jean Francois Pilatre de Rozier and the Marquis d'Arlandes drift over Paris in a Montgolfier, achieving the first manned...