Word: malmaison
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Luxurious and very exclusive is a certain private sanitarium near Malmaison to which the great of France are discreetly taken when they grow not quite bright...
...Deschanel, who grew slightly demented after he had been President of France (TIME, Aug. 2, 1926)." When great M. ReneéViviani came to the U. S. as High Commissioner with Marshall Joffre in 1915, few surmised that this onetime Prime Minister of France would soon be immured at Malmaison. Last week however all France knew-and laughed in the knowledge-that M. Le Senateur Louis Klotz, onetime Finance Minister in the Clemenceau War Cabinet (1917-20) had just tried desperately to prove himself fit for Malmaison-and failed...
...Josephine Bonaparte was one of the first sponsors of swan fixtures. At Malmaison, she had such fixtures on her bathtub...
...attorney, creator with Briand and Millerand in 1904 of the Republican Socialist Party, enlightened and patriotic pacifist, member of the Briand "Sacred Union" the War Cabinet which included every then living former Premier, "as an orator unequaled in the history of France"; of "complete collapse following illness", at the Malmaison Sanitarium...
Edouard Belin, French inventor, who -like engineers of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. (TIME, June 2) -has devised a machine for sending photographs by telephone, last week reported success in transmitting photographs by wireless. A picture sent from his wireless station at Malmaison, ten miles outside of Paris, was published in Le Matin. Convinced of the practicability of transmitting radio pictures between New York and Paris, he intends to establish receiving posts in New York in September...