Word: matignon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...national defense council, commander in chief of the Central European forces of NATO. For publicly and roundly condemning the proposed European Army (which he was likely to command if it should máterialize), blunt, impetuous Marshal Juin was summoned personally by Premier Joseph Laniel to the Hotel Matignon to give an account of his actions...
...admitted a spokesman at Hôtel Matignon, France's 10 Downing Street, "perhaps it does look a little strange, but really it was just a coincidence." Coincidence or not, the prisoners had their bags all packed before the word came, and the party threw a champagne banquet for them that night...
...Cheese, Two Prices. Pinay moved his office to the ornate Hotel Matignon, the official residence of Premiers. But he refused to move even a toothbrush or clean shirt into the comfortable apartment maintained there for the chief of the government; he preferred to stay in his unpretentious five-room apartment, to save himself the rigors of the moving-out day which comes to all who move into the Matignon. As was his habit when a Deputy, he locked up his desk almost every weekend and took off to St. Chamond, to look in on his tannery and, as plain...
These messages in hand, Ambassador Dunn drove across the Seine to Pinay's Left Bank residence, the Hotel Matignon. Premier Pinay was "in a meeting," and the Ambassador talked instead to Under Secretary of State Felix Gaillard. Then Dunn gave Gaillard not only the formal letter but-a shocking diplomatic blunder -the private "verbal comments," for Pinay to read for himself...
Premier Antoine Pinay, a resolutely ordinary Frenchman, likes to think of France as a large-scale model of Saint-Chamond (pop. 15,000), his industrious little home town (its chief product: shoelaces) near Lyons. As often as he can, Pinay locks his desk in the Hotel Matignon, his official Paris residence, and slips away to look over the prosperous tannery he still owns in Saint-Chamond, and to chat with local shopkeepers and housewives about the problem on whose solution he has staked his political future: how to cut prices, hold back inflation. Recently, le petit Premier made a startling...