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...adjacent site in 1962. This year the city finally completed plans to finish the project; excavation was begun in February. Among the archaeologists on hand were Professors Maurice Euzennat, 40, who also serves as director of antiquities of Provence and Corsica for French Minister of Culture André Malraux, and 30-year-old François Salviat. As the power shovels bit into the rocky grey soil, more and more of Massilia's fortifications began to appear. To Euzennat, it soon became apparent that a greater expanse of ramparts remained intact than anyone had estimated when fragments were unearthed...
...Malraux went to work for Charles de Gaulle. As Minister of Culture, he gave Paris a new luster by ordering its grimy buildings scrubbed and floodlit. More important, he brought a new glow to French cultural life-at least on its façade-by his grand subsidies to the arts and, most of all, by his personal distinction. Still to many a former leftist admirer, his acceptance of a government post amounted to a sellout of his principles. "How can you hear me now, Andre Malraux?" asked Film Director Jean-Luc Godard. "I am telephoning from the outside...
Strength in Silences. For the past few years, friends and critics alike have waited impatiently for Malraux's own assessment of his career. Last year his first wife, Clara, beat him to the punch by publishing her version of their early years together. "But her picture of the thoroughgoing "misogynist," whose early rebellion had "reserved areas that he could define as it suited him, or according to his own advantage," served largely as a reminder that it was Malraux's version that was really needed...
Last week part of that version unexpectedly appeared. Pirated excerpts were printed in the newspaper France-Soir -two months ahead of the book's scheduled publication date. Malraux's publisher, Gallimard, duly registered its consternation at the leak, but the 3,500 words that were made public were only a teasing glimpse of what was to come...
...Whole Story. Such is the interest in the rest of Malraux's Anti-Memoirs that U.S. publishers have reportedly offered as much as $250,000 for the right to put out an English version. Even at that high price, they will only be buying part of the story. Anti-Memoirs is a four-volume work, and Malraux, now 65, has already arranged to have the other three volumes published posthumously...