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...Napoleon III built it as a summer residence in 1854 to please his wife Eugénie. The palace closed when the dynasty fell, but it reopened as a hotel in 1894 and has been one of the world's finest ever since. La specialité de la maison is pamper le guest. Winston Churchill became a regular only after the hotel at its own expense installed a custom-built, old-fashioned bathtub complete with bronze legs, just like the one in his London town house. Says Palais General Manager Roger Boltz: "As long as there are people...
Venom Troglodytica à la patrie El-Manssourkraut maison Red-Lining Crow à volont...
...More recently, lohn Fowles's The Magus dealt with a girl who was possibly 1) a ghost, 2) a nymphomaniac, 3) an actress, or 4) twins. Peter Israel's The Hen's House is filled with shifting symbolic identities, and Alain Robbe-Grillet's La Maison de Rendez-vous is peopled with so many polyperses that the reader has to beat them off with a stick...
...MAISON DE RENDEZVOUS, by Alain Robbe-Grillet. Translated by Richard Howard. 154 pages. Grove Press...
...some extent, La Maison de Rendezvous represents a change of direction for Robbe-Grillet: there is a plot of sorts, and there is even some introspection, usually shunned by the New Novelists. There is also a good deal of action, much of it repetitive, and several killings in addition to poor Kito's. But since no one can really agree on the identity of anyone else, it is difficult to discover who, if anyone, is dead, much less why. Readers who happen to be avid for the daytime retelling of last night's nightmare will find surfeit...