Word: matignon
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...Midnight. Next afternoon, Mendes-France and his good friend Anthony Eden flew in from Geneva, and Mendes hurried to the American embassy to greet Dulles. That night the bustling French Premier entertained the American and British Secretaries at dinner in the Premier's official residence. Hotel de Matignon. After coffee and liqueurs, Mendes snapped for a map and began to talk...
...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...
Laniel read some correspondence between himself and Juin. In one letter, Juin had written: "I will not be called on the carpet like a simple bugler . . ." Another: "I don't want to come to the Hotel Matignon and run into a crowd of newspapermen . . . waiting with curiosity for a man who is about to be thrashed with saddle straps." Said Laniel to the Assembly, with a sigh: "I told him he could use a side entrance, but his mind was made up." The National Assembly laughed-in sympathy with Premier Laniel and with civilian government. It supported the sacking...
...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...