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No one knows what the man who founded Duluth, Minn., in 1679 looked like. Archives reveal little more than that he was a French voyageur named Daniel Greysolon, bore the title of Sieur Du Luth, served as foot captain in the Royal Guard, and became a friend of the Sioux...
One cookout this summer included White House Chef René Verdon, former Colony Chef Jean Vergnes, former Le Pavilion Chef Pierre Franey, La Caravelle Chef Roger Fessaguet, and Jacques Pépin, former chef to Charles de Gaulle. On the beach, the fivesome whipped up a little barbecue that featured...
The Russians have vociferously denied Wildenstein's charges, but French critics tend to agree with him. "The Russians boxed us in very neatly on this one," an art critic for Le Figaro said privately. "On est des cocus." (We've been cuckolded.) As for the Louvre's...
When Jeannine died in 1946, partially of malnutrition, De Staël settled into a black period that ended just as his third dealer, Jacques Dubourg, began to find an audience for his work. One of the first to herald him was Cubist Georges Braque, who announced: "De Staë...
> Jacques Monod, 55, Paris-born, trained in the U.S. in 1936, awarded U.S. Bronze Star; at Pasteur since 1945; professor of cellular biochemistry at Paris' Faculté des Sciences.