Word: frenched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since his brilliant, luminous canvases were even then bringing up to $10,000 each, an estate of several million dollars was involved. Bonnard's friends were gloomy; in their opinion there was no escape from the basic French law of "community of goods," and in time of war, with half France occupied by the Nazis, Vichy government officials would certainly sell his goods to pay Marthe's inheritance taxes. If only she had left a will...
...years had the French had so intriguing and labyrinthine a scandal as L'Affaire Lacaze (TIME, Feb. 2). At stake was whether handsome and politically influential Jean Lacaze, administrator of the vast Zellidja lead and zinc mines in Morocco, his entrancing sister, Domenica, and her great and good friend, Dr. Maurice Lacour, were involved in an unsuccessful plot to murder Domenica's adopted...
...Gauguins; its guests dined off silver plates dipped in gold. Some of the guests: Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower, General Alfred Gruenther, Papal Legate Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli (now Pope John XXIII), the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands, Cardinal Spellman, Bernard Baruch, and practically every noted French politician, artist or writer...
...squeeze on Duvalier, Castro has given friendly refuge to Duvalier's archenemy, Planter Louis Dejoie, the defeated candidate in Haiti's mulatto-v.-black presidential elections in 1957. Dejoie confers daily with top rebel leaders, runs a program of incitement to revolt three nights a.week in French and Creole over Radio Progreso, a 5,000-watt Havana station. Fortnight ago, Dejoie announced a unity pact with rabble-rousing ex-President Daniel Fignole, a New York-based exile, and Dr. Clement Jumelle, who is hiding out in Haiti...
From somewhere in the Bel Air mansion overlooking Hollywood, the butler appears with four squirming Yorkshire terriers and one beribboned miniature French poodle. Off in a corner, a burly, bald man toys with a tape recorder. "How do you parse champagne?" he asks suddenly. "How do you imprison it on a page...