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...paces last week with the same zesty grace. At the first big White House wingding of the season, the President and First Lady greeted ambassadors and their wives as they sipped champagne and nibbled at small cakes. There were fires in all the fireplaces, and the flowers, said Mme. Hervé Alphand, wife of the French ambassador, "looked as if they have been arranged by a human hand instead of by a florist." It was a warm and friendly gathering. President Kennedy in his new club coat and striped trousers managed to talk to almost every guest except Russian Ambassador...
...storm of protest. Pleaded the Duke de Montesquiou-Fezensac: "Don't banish from the nation men who, living in misery, improve their humble position with products of the soil. Our vines are our glory. Do not the leaves entwine themselves about the capitals of our cathedrals?" Deputy Hervé Nader accused Debré of "favoring the Anglomania of whisky galore, which will soon become the opium of the middle classes...
...British Poetess Dame Edith Sitwell, whose connections with Peru had hitherto been obscure. Last weekend Berckemeyer did it again: an after-theater supper for British Actor Sir John Gielgud. French embassy parties, while never very big, are among the most enjoyable, are distinguished by the beauty of Ambassador Hervé Alphand's second wife (he was divorced, remarried last summer) and the ambassador's after-dinner impersonations of Winston Churchill and France's René Coty. ("If I had my choice between Maurice Chevalier and Alphand," says an admirer, "I'd take Alphand...
...French Stalin, were in ferment; the intellectuals, a small but important faction because of their contacts with influential fellow travelers, were distraught and openly disobeyed party rulings. The party cell at Paris' Lycée Voltaire, for example, continued to welcome former L'Humanité Editor Pierre Hervé, though he had been kicked out of the party for criticizing its subservience to Russia. Would the party be forced to bend with the prevailing wind...
CONSTANCE, by Hervé Bazln (216 pp.; Crown; $3). French Author Bazin's novels (Viper in the Fist, Head Against the Walls) are as alive, cynical and human as the Paris Flea Market, but like that fascinating catchall, they end by suggesting that the props of life, and finally life itself, add up to a shabby bargain. In this work. Heroine Constance, hopelessly crippled in a World War II bombing, has no intention of divorcing herself from the world. Transformed from a good-looking, athletic girl into an object of pity, she determines to live through other people. Flip...