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Because the Grand Trianon was used more for affairs of the heart than of state, it has featured little in history, and since 1963, has been closed even as a museum. The reason was not government indifference. Charles de Gaulle and his Minister of Culture, Andre Malraux, had quietly decided between them that it was time for the Grand Trianon to stage a royal comeback, this time as a museum and guest house where De Gaulle could feast and confer with visiting heads of state...
...Sardinia, Sons and Lovers. Wyndham Lewis, Tarr. Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Contes Cruels. Louis MacNeice, Autumn Journal. Stephane Mallarme, Poesies. Andre Malraux, La Condition Humaine. Katherine Mansfield, The Garden Party. Somerset Maugham, The Casuarina Tree. Guy de Maupassant, Bel Ami. Henri Michaux, Au Pays de la Magie...
...Figaro said privately. "On est des cocus." (We've been cuckolded.) As for the Louvre's curators, they protested that they had merely accepted the show from Bordeaux, where it was organized by the Gaullist mayor, Jacques Chaban-Delmas, with the blessings of Culture Minister André Malraux. However, one curator admitted: "The first thing I did when I noticed-uh-certain things, was rewrite the catalogue...
Quelle crise! Culture Minister Andre Malraux has conducted a survey that shows that a minimum of 1,500 ateliers must be built by 1973, most of them just to house artists already living in condemned buildings. Since 1963, however, only $400,000 has been budgeted for new studios, and just 92 ateliers have been built. For the next five years, Malraux has only $200,000 a year to spend on artists' housing. Other than that, he can only encourage real estate developers to include low-cost ateliers in their high-cost apartment buildings...
...Malraux did not clarify matters very much when he finally surfaced in Hong Kong last week. Shrugging away questions about his mission, he allowed that France hoped to sponsor a Chinese art exhibition in Paris. Wasn't there more to his trip than that? Well, he had conferred with Mao Tse-tung on "the most important problems of our time, and it was obvious that Chairman Mao had as complete mastery of the situation as ever in his entire life...