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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...
...night long, cars filed into the courtyard of the Hôtel Matignon, official residence of French Premiers, to discharge French politicians arriving to talk cabinet posts with Pleven. When ex-Premier Queuille's sleek Delahaye almost collided with Foreign Minister Schuman's modest Citroën, Passenger Queuille doffed his hat, asked: "Are you hurt?" Said Passenger Schuman: "No, but I'm in a hurry...
Private Life: Prefers his modest apartment in Paris' Auteuil quarter, but spends most of his long working days at his official residence, the Hotel Matignon. He and his wife Anne have two married daughters, six granddaughters. His favorite relaxation: walking on the Breton seashore...
...Socialist Premier Paul Ramadier called his precarious coalition Cabinet into an emergency session in the ornate Hotel Matignon. The five Communist ministers sat grim and silent. Thorez intently studied the gilt cherubs on the ceiling. Said Ramadier: "I ask you not to reverse a policy which is the right one for the nation...