Word: henri
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Throughout France's recent election campaign, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing was rarely without a member of his family by his side. One of his two sons, Henri, 17, and Louis, 16, usually carried the notes for his speeches. Younger daughter Jacinte, 14, became one of the most familiar faces in France; her picture appeared on thousands of her father's election posters. Pretty Valérie-Anne, 20, surprised and delighted a crowd of 100,000 Parisians at an election rally when she suddenly kissed her father on both cheeks just as he was about...
...herself, having studied economics in the past two years in order to "keep up with the economic-oriented discussions in the family." Indeed, it probably takes some doing to keep up with Valérie-Anne, a student at the prestigious Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques in Paris, and Henri, who is studying economics at the University of Nanterre. The two younger children are enrolled in private Catholic schools in Paris...
...problem is that OPEC has become a monopoly, said Henri Simonet, vice president of the Commission of the European Communities (Common Market). "There are only two ways of having a price picture that is tolerable to the world as a whole," he declared. The industrialized nations must become self-sufficient in energy-which is unlikely...
France's King Henri III first dropped in for dinner on March 4, 1582, and became a regular patron of the Parisian hostelry. Since Harry's day, its habitues have ranged from musketeers to movie stars, presidents to prelates. Withal, La Tour d'Argent has remained one of the brightest, most tenacious stars in world gastronomy.* Kingdoms and republics have passed, boulevards and bridges have been renamed, heroes have risen and fallen-and been denied tables -but La Tour d'Argent has remained as immutable as its name, a tower of salivary silver. To this...
...Phaedrus, East met West in a synthesis of Buddhism's ideas on the pursuit of excellence and those of the French mathematician-philosopher Jules Henri Poincare, who in Foundations of Science (1902) claimed that the underlying reality was not to be found in solid objects but in the harmonious order of the objects. Phaedrus called this unobservable order "Quality" and spent years trying to convince his teachers, and later his students, that it was the missing link that would close the subject-object gap and the schism between classic and romantic, between art and technology. Whether...