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With open trunks of manuscripts yawning around the publishing world, what widows do with material that writers originally considered unpublishable is an increasingly controversial matter. In this case Mme. Camus was obviously right. The dogged clumsiness of the construction and some superfluous scenes show a beginner hard at work. But the ability to describe the world as it might have been seen by an angel on his first visit shows that Camus was in some respects already near the height of his powers...
What were the North Vietnamese really up to? There were few clues from the Communists; Mme. Nguyen Thi Binh, the chief Viet Cong negotiator in Paris, spoke conventionally of overthrowing "the repressive regime of Saigon" and establishing a goverment of "national concord" All that intelligence officers know for sure is that Hanoi has planned a five-phase offensive...
...taken half of Chevalier's estimated $5,000,000 estate, about 40% of the remainder will go to one Odette Melier, a widowed former actress whom Chevalier met in 1952 and who now lives in an apartment he found for her near his home. Said Mme. Melier: "Maurice Chevalier was a marvelous grandfather for my little girl, Pascale. He was a marvelous friend to me. I am in mourning...
...tracked Lucienne (Roberta Maxwell) to her home. She is shocked by his overt proposition, and he is chagrined to encounter her husband Vatelin (Richard Curnock), who happens to be an old friend. Shock and chagrin are three-quarters of the emotions in a Feydeau farce. Lucienne soon meets Mme. Pontagnac (Tudi Wiggins), and the two make a compact that if either woman is betrayed by her husband, she will make him a cuckold in revenge...
...author was a wealthy, conservative lawyer who was born in the old province of Burgundy in 1755. He sat out the French Revolution in America, then went home to re-establish himself in the elegant world of the hunt and the salon. He was Mme. Récamier's cousin and she doted on him. Though he was a much sought-after bachelor, his large and glittering acquaintance apparently took him for granted. He seldom appears in memoirs during an age when practically everybody wrote one. But what great company he must have been. To judge by his book...