Word: gaullist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hemisphere, and that Venezuela is disturbed by French trade with Cuba. The joint communiqué was limited to bland assurances of mutual esteem and wishes for world peace. French loans for Venezuelan development? There was little talk of that. "They need experts more than money," sniffed one high-ranking Gaullist...
...sounded vaguely grand, or perhaps grandly vague, but many of De Gaulle's closest supporters were worried. For all its prestige value, the trip will keep the French President, at 73 and just five months after his prostate operation, on a dead run for more than three weeks. Gaullist newspapers worried in print about the "alarming trip" that would take their hero to "the land of revolutions, of assassination attempts one after another." Novelist François Mauriac, a most emotional Gaullist, wrote in Figaro Litte-rairé: "I fear this trip, I detest it; it seems...
...Gaullist critics were quick to complain about the manner of the budget's presentation (to the public rather than to Parliament first), but few dared to challenge the facts and figures of what Giscard calls "a sincere balanced budget, without any tricks or guile." In the land of Descartes, where the class prize begins in kindergarten and the race is to the swiftest synopsis, the elegant, aristocratic Giscard has been winning prizes all his life as the fastest brain in town. Born to wealth and name, Giscard zipped through France's best schools, became a member...
Hardly the stuffy image of a traditional French Cabinet minister, Giscard skis, swims, pilots a plane, has even been known to ride the Paris subway to work. Hardly even a Gaullist for that matter, Giscard heads his own 35-man Republican Independent Party in Parliament. Today it provides the Gaullist coalition its effective majority. When De Gaulle is gone, it could become the base upon which Giscard might mount his own campaign for the last big prize left: the presidency of France...
...known price ever paid for an art object, $2,300,000. But that deal involved only money, of which the Met has access to loads ($104 million-plus in assets, exclusive of its art riches); other triumphs are more intriguing. Four years ago, the Met stirred outrage in the Gaullist Parliament by quietly acquiring, for possibly $750,000, The Fortune Teller by the belatedly discovered 17th century French master, Georges de La Tour. Redmond himself spotted this buy, but how the export license was arranged has never been revealed. When the Met wants something, it can pounce like...