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Charles de Gaulle climbed aboard an Air France DC-8 last week and headed eastward around the world. His trip was to last 19 days, and it would undoubt edly bring the glory of enlightened Gaul to three continents. In Ethiopia he was to confer with Emperor Haile Selassie on the future of Africa. In Cambodia he was to meet Prince Norodom Sihanouk, presumably to condemn the war in Viet Nam. In Tahiti he was to watch the detonation of the eighth nuclear device of his celebrated force de frappe...
CHRYSLER PRESENTS THE BOB HOPE CHRIST MAS SHOW (NBC, 9-10:30 p.m.). Had Bob been born in ancient Rome, he would have followed the eagle through all of Gaul. As it is, it's Viet...
...uproar in Strasbourg exemplified a problem that has plagued French parents since 1803, when the Napoleon government decreed that all Gaul's children must be named after Catholic saints. In 1813, the law was liberalized to include names of other "persons known in ancient history," but it has stood unchanged since, and today, though Charles de Gaulle exhorts his countrymen to "marry our century," French offspring may be christened Luc, Cléopâtre or Nabuchodonosor but not Lyndon, Elke or Nasution...
Nonetheless, to the French, the sale was an irreparable loss of national patrimony. Both the Philadelphia Bathers and the National Gallery's new acquisition were sold from the collection of a staunch Gaul, the late Auguste Pellerin, margarine magnate and one of the original collectors of Cézanne. But French fury focused on Culture Minister André Malraux, who has had the power since 1961 to instigate the refusal of export permits for outstanding works of native art. "Doesn't he like Cézanne?" asked Critic Pierre Cabanne in the weekly Arts. "This painting belonged first...
...Julian wanted to be a teacher, and might well have been if his half-brother Gallus (whom Vidal paints as almost a parody of the Roman voluptuary) had not been executed for misgovernment, leaving the Emperor Constantius and Julian as the last male survivors of the imperial line. With Gaul threatened by the Alamanni, Constantius reluctantly bestowed on Julian the title of Caesar and gave him both the government of Gaul and the hand of his sister Helena...