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Pryce-Jones spends pages describing the structure and leading personalities of the Nazis' puppet government in Vichy. Although Henri Philippe Petain and the other chief collaborators spent much of their time outside of Paris, their influence and the attractiveness of their arguments were felt throughout the crippled capital. "It is with honor and in order to maintain French unity, a unity that has lasted ten centuries, and in the framework of the constructive activity of the new European order, that today I am embarking on the path of collaboration," Marshal Petain told Hitler in October 1940. Not only...
Prices for the new accessories vary so greatly that almost anyone can satisfy that metal urge. In New York City, street vendors hawk bronze leather shoulder bags for $23. A similar item at New York's Henri Bendel runs $165. Metallic belts can range from $2 for a gold cinch to $200 for a Judith Leiber number with handcrafted metal buckles from Bullock's Wilshire in Los Angeles. Miami's tony Twenty-Four Collection is devoting its entire holiday catalogue to metallics, from $124 gold-sprayed straw hats to $1,800 gold-striped snakeskin jackets...
...staff to Commission President Gaston Thorn hi Brussels; of wounds received when he was shot with a hunting rifle, apparently by his estranged wife of 28 years, Anna-Maria, who then appears to have committed suicide by electrocuting herself in the bath; in Ixelles, Belgium. The son of Paul-Henri Spaak, the former Belgian Prime Minister and Foreign Minister who played a major role in the formation of the European Community and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Spaak helped formulate the Community's position at last week's Ottawa summit, for which he was about to depart when...
Listen, mes chers. Before you leave Paris for I'Amérique on your honeymoon it is absolutely essential that you equip yourselves with the new Guide to New York by Henri Gault and Christian Millau. There is no other comparable introduction to New York and les New-Yorkais, certainly not in French (and it's available only in French). With its information on hotels, restaurants, theaters, shopping, museums, la night life, even transportation, it will be as valuable to you as your traveler's checks. The book also contains many sage observations about the habits-some...
...Honore Daumier. Moreover, there is no way of drawing a hard-and-fast line between the realist enterprise and that of the impressionists. Although artists like Degas and Manet are represented, and although there are some exquisite paintings by figures on the edge of the impressionist group-like Henri Fantin-Latour, whose portrait of his two sisters embroidering and reading is one of the most affecting icons of intimacy in all 19th century art-one wishes the connections between the two had been made somewhat more explicit, even at the risk of covering familiar ground again...