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Round a portly, florid French chef in a hole-in-the-wall restaurant on rue de Longchamp clustered 60 homesick Mexicans. The peppery air crackled and popped with counsel on the making of tortillas and chile relleno on current Paris rations...
...trick that many a canny Frenchman tried was to place old money on a horse expected to be scratched from a race at Longchamp-hoping that his bet would be returned in new money. (The trick failed.) People with servants redeemed extra money by sending their servants out with extra amounts. Finance Minister René Pleven was cheerful, but the staid old Bank of France considered the whole business a mess...
Outside the city, Painters Manet and Degas went horse racing at Longchamp, while Seurat settled himself down to immortalize La Grande Jatte with shimmering pictures of ladies taking the afternoon sun under the island's trees. In the town of St. Cloud, whose park reveals the most magnificent panorama of Paris, Paris-born Alfred Sisley painted one of his best, The Bridge at St. Cloud. In the tranquil village of Giverny, Claude Monet contemplated the ice and snow on the winter stream, and in summer the riot of purple irises and rare water lilies in his garden...
...August that sleepy little spa in upstate New York wakes up to become to U. S. racehorse people what Ascot is to the English, Longchamp to the French, Melbourne to the Australians. Saratoga can be as hot as the Sahara in August. Its hotels are great grotesque relics of the Mauve Decade with creaking elevators and hard beds. Its natives are openly out to make hay while the sun shines...
...grandson of Chicago's Marshall Field. Owner Beatty, who received $46,140 first-place money, was as surprised as the rest of the world. Bois Roussel, whom he had bought for $40,000 two months ago, had won only one previous race, the Prix Juigné at Longchamp last spring...