Word: gobelins
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...spared precious little water for France this past summer, but wine-making man is glorying in His neglect. From the rolling, red-earth slopes of Burgundy, whose minuscule vineyards might have been stitched into place by the Gobelin tapestry masters, to the gravelly, gray fields of Bordeaux, where sunny days are normally counted like pearls, the long, sultry Cézanne summer has wrought wonders among the grapes. For many wines, 1976 may prove to be the vintage of the century. At worst, the 1976 wines will be memorable and abundant in just about all the 655,125 acres...
...pastoral scenes with shepherds in knee breeches that are the cliches of rococo chinaware decoration were largely Boucher's doing. He painted on fans and carriage doors, snuffboxes, escritoires and ostrich eggs. And when Louis XV put Boucher in control of the state tapestry factories at Beauvais and Gobelin, he brought about the last flourish of grand-scale European weaving. No designer since Boucher has managed to raise tapestry to that pitch of worldly exuberance and erotic charm...
Brandt and his flaxen-haired Norwegian wife Rut were at the door to greet the crowd. More than 500 ordinary Germans, who normally would have been held back by police lines, trooped into the splendidly furnished 14-room residence. Stiff at first, they gawked at the Gobelin tapestry on the wall and perched awkwardly on the edge of burgundy settees and easy chairs. But the uneasiness quickly wore off. Soon workingmen in open shirts, longhaired youths and nurses from a nearby hospital were helping themselves to cigarettes, guzzling beer and surveying the place as if they owned...
WITHIN the Gobelin-hung halls of the Elysée Palace mingled the political and military leaders of France, their tricolor sashes and bemedaled uniforms testifying to their country's proud if sometimes painful past. Outside in the courtyard, drawn up on one side of a red carpet that stretched across the white gravel, stood a company of the Republican Guard, resplendent in their 19th century red-trimmed uniforms. Down the ribbon of carpet last week walked Georges Pompidou, the man to whom France has entrusted its destiny for the next seven years...
...flag flying over the Foreign Ministry instead of the customary tricolore. The austere Quai d'Orsay palace, on the Left Bank between the National Assembly and the Invalides, will be turned over to the Nixon party during his stay. The palace walls are decked with priceless Gobelin and Beauvais tapestries, the floors with Savon-nerie carpets. The cellars are stocked with champagne, which no doubt will be poured when De Gaulle escorts Nixon to the Quai d'Orsay after their first conversations at the Elysee Palace...