Word: midi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...argot they are les Bicots, but respectable Parisians call them les Algériens. After 1946, when the people of Algeria were granted full French citizenship, they began pouring into France at the rate of 30,000 a year. Arriving in Paris on the slow trains from the Midi, they drift with their bundles into the old, revolutionary districts of Belleville and Ménilmontant, where whole blocks now have the sound and smell of Algerian medinas. Only one in five of the Algerians in Paris has regular employment; the others live in the tradition of the Paris demimonde, vociferously...
...began to write his masterpiece, France Gastronomique, in 28 volumes. "When you're searching for good places to eat in provincial towns," wrote Curnonsky, "see the doctors, the cabdrivers and the priests. They're the ones who know how to eat." Five years later, when Paris Midi asked France's innkeepers, chefs and gourmets to pick a likely candidate for the title Prince of Gastronomes, their choice was immediate-Curnonsky, of course...
...flawless grace and soaring leaps became romantic legend after he was pronounced incurably insane (dementia praecox) in-1919; of a kidney ailment; in London. Born and schooled in Russia, he set European balletomanes abuzz in 1911 when he danced Le Spectre de la Rose, Petrouchka, and L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune in Serge Diaghilev's new ballet company which opened in Paris. In 1916 he toured the Americas, where his fame mounted while his mental health declined (he began to identify himself with the faun in his most celebrated dance). He spent 21 years...
...prove it last week he was turning his back on his new-found museum home, closing his villa and moving south to the Midi. Like Picasso he had become interested in making pottery. "When I touched the soil, I felt a shock. The earth of the Midi is made for ceramics." He is also considering a commission to decorate a Roman Catholic chapel at Vence near the one that Fellow Artist Matisse (TIME, Oct. 24) is now designing...