Word: mirabeau
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...annually in secret funds, allegedly on payoffs. President Georges Pompidou pays rent on his He Saint-Louis apartment to the Rothschilds, who bought it for him when he lacked the cash. Sometimes a colorful morsel proves slippery-those famous chestnuts that, according to the author, canopy Cours Mirabeau in Aixen-Provence are plane trees...
Brave Popularizers. Rousseau apart, the brio of the age sings through its people-Gluck and Burke, Goethe and Charles III, Sheridan and Mirabeau, Marie Antoinette and Catherine the Great-who occupies a chapter of special delight. The volume is scattershot with fascinating and sometimes trivial notes: Mozart early in his career used to send obscene letters to relatives; in 18th century London, privies were called Jerichos; Boswell went to bed with Rousseau's wife precisely 13 times. The Durants can scarcely resist an anecdote or an aphorism. The borrowed ones are usually the best, as for instance Diderot...
...chef, though he began developing a taste for fine food early in life and until the end glowingly recalled his mother's specialty: puree of salt codfish, served lukewarm. He was a busboy in Biarritz at 14, by 23 had become the youngest captain of waiters (at Le Mirabeau) in Paris. In 1939 he came to New York to manage the French restaurant at the World's Fair, in 1941 opened Le Pavilion, later added a second Manhattan restaurant, La Cote Basque...
...buttress his education program, Lyndon Johnson reached all the way back to the Continental Congress, which in 1787 proclaimed that schools "shall forever be encouraged," and to Mirabeau B. Lamar, second president of the Republic of Texas and "the father of Texas education," who remarked in 1838 that "the cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy." The President also reached back to his own experience in Congress...
...history takes stage center as Bitos actually becomes Robespierre. There are tableaux of the boy being caned by a Jesuit schoolmaster for his stiff-necked pride, of Robespierre as a humorless young parliamentary Stalin outraging the more moderate Mirabeau ("You've taught me a very sad thing, which is that the Revolution could be a bore"), of Robespierre dictating new decrees of death in a last mad spasm of guillotine-hungry power...