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Unable to have his way, Gaillard offered his resignation to President Coty, who had to put off his own holiday departure for the French Alps. For the final session at Bourgès-Maunoury's house in suburban Saint Germain, ex-Premier Guy Mollet was brought in to swing his Socialists into line. Then the Premier announced to the waiting reporters that 550 billion francs had been whacked off the estimates; over the weekend technicians would try to slice off the remaining 50 billion to satisfy Gaillard. The youngest Finance Minister promised to make his resignation "conditional," i.e., staying...
Social sciences are taught at the College European on the Left Bank's Boulevard St. Germain. Also in July, the Ecole du Louvre will hold month long courses on "The Archaeology of the Middle Ages" and "Modern Painting." An "American Summer Course" of liberal arts is available at the Sorbonne, starting July 1. A special course is even offered to those who are interested in "aerial photogrammetry" by the Ecole Nationale des Sciences Geographiques in the month of June. Tutition fees for most courses...
Contentment with Little. Such paintings as the Annunciation, endlessly copied, made Fra Angelico's reputation. They established the figure of the angel in the form that still seems most appropriate for religious art, and even today the Annunciation is rated by former Louvre Curator Germain Bazin as "no doubt the most perfect of all Fra Angelico's works." Fra Angelico found himself besieged with requests as his style became more widely known and admired. Contemporary accounts describe his reaction-he simply referred his patrons to the prior of his monastery, saying for himself: "True riches consist in being...
Heir to this proud tradition, the intellectual in France today has the authority of a statesman or a guru. In the sidewalk cafés of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, crew-cut young French students hotly dispute the exact degree of "despair" advocated by Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre or his former disciple Albert Camus. Sometimes the great men themselves appear at the Café de Flore or the Deux Magots. When they do not, their movements, habits, tastes and idiosyncrasies are reported as if they were movie stars. By others, who call them "the mandarins." the French intellectuals...
...intellectual world of Paris, which is both hothouse and hotbed, the Catholics are often admired as novelists in spite of their message. For the dominant mood of St. Germain-des-Prés is Doubt, not Faith...