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During the French Revolution, Rémi Saint-Victor and the Marquise Corinne de Theuriet narrowly missed appointments with the guillotine. Now, after four years' imprisonment, Remi is back at the Polytechnic Institute where he had been Lavoisier's prize pupil; the marquise is the wife of complaisant General Rouvroy and the mistress of scoundrelly Jardinier, a British spy, black-marketeer and confidant of the great. On the night of Talleyrand's great ball for Napoleon and Josephine, the eyes of Rémi and Corinne meet across a crowded room: "He saw her catch her breath...
These boudoir conquests are succeeded by Napoleon's conquest of Egypt. (Rémi is one of a corps of French savants whom Napoleon takes along to bring civilization to the benighted Arabs.) Author McKenney handles battles with as much relish as bundling. The rout of the Mamelukes at the Pyramids is closely followed by the annihilation of the French fleet at Aboukir Bay, and Napoleon and his army of 25,000 settle down for their strange three-year sojourn in Egypt. The impact of the French Age of Enlightenment on the 12th century mentality of the fellahin gives...
...peso still permits us to enjoy a standard of living which leaves nothing to envy in the U.S. Uruguay has resources and will undoubtedly overcome its difficulties in the economic field; its biggest assets: an ideal geographical position, a 3,000,000 all-white population and 100,000 sq. mi. of fertile land. With a political tradition of stability and freedom, full prosperity cannot be far away. We haven't noticed any special public or private favoring of trading with the Reds. If negotiations with Communist countries do prosper in a small way, it is mostly because...
...traveled as far and fast as her admirers could have hoped, since she bowed at La Scala as Elvira in Rossini's L'ltaliana in Algeri three years ago (TIME, March 16, 1953). In Europe she has appeared before both opera and concert audiences from Stockholm to Mi lan. While studying in Paris she met her husband, a Spanish journalist named Luis Rodriguez, lost him 14 months later (he died of a liver ailment), two days before she was to sing a command performance of Le Cog d'Or at London's Covent Garden. She went...
...just another Kaffir returning to his kraal." To British officialdom, according to solemn agreement, he was a private citizen of Bechuanaland, with all the rights thereof, permitted to return at last to his homeland. But to a hundred thousand Ba-mangwato tribesmen whose kraals spread over 40,000 sq. mi. of Bechuanaland, Seretse Khama, 34, was still the chief. Last week, as a charter aircraft flew Seretse back from six years' exile in Britain, the Bamangwato, with their wives and children, crowded the airport at Francistown by the thousands. Many had trekked for days through the parched African bush...