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...whose family coat of arms portrays-naturally-a lion, founded a wild-game park three years ago. On the spacious grounds around his family's Renaissance Château de Thoiry, he started out with a score of lions. Obviously French food and the sweeping savannas of the Ile-de-France region agreed with the animals. They proliferated so rapidly that the desperate viscount is now trying to export his surplus. To where? Where else? Africa...
...special service that one guest called "visually the most beautiful Christmas Eve Mass I've ever been to." With permission from France's Minister of Culture, U.S. Ambassador Sargent Shriver invited friends, fellow diplomats and their families to worship in the tiny national museum on Paris' Ile de la Cité. The celebrants wore vestments designed by Matisse, and the Met's Anna Moffo sang sacred music at what may well have been the first midnight Mass at Sainte-Chapelle since the time of Louis XIV. It was celebrated in relative comfort. Leaving no detail...
...horsemanship. In the city, they occasionally go to first nights at the theater and constantly browse through the galleries for new paintings. Those that are not at the Matignon decorate their six-room, Louis XV- and XVI-furnished apartment overlooking Notre Dame Cathedral from Paris' fashionable and romantic Ile Saint-Louis...
...with fantasy, Expo crowds are also showing a healthy liking for good old-fashioned realism. At the International Sculpture Garden on the Ile Ste. Hé1ène, which includes 55 works from 17 countries, four out of five fairgoers applaud Ivan Chadre's Stones Are the Arms of the Proletariat. "I can relate to it," says one Ontario housewife pushing her two-year-old in a gocart...
...week required eight separate sales in seven days. Said an appraiser for New York's Parke-Bernet Galleries, after picking through her 26-room Manhattan triplex penthouse at 625 Park Avenue: "She even had closets leading to closets." But many of her choicest treasures were kept in her Ile St. Louis flat in Paris (see color pages). On the sales' opening day, a La Fresnaye cubist painting of garden tools brought $100,000. Chagall's Lovers and the Moon fetched $24,000, and the Bonnard landscape (see overleaf) sold...