Word: orsay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many evenings there are lines outside his basement nightclub, "Catacombs 65" (from the church's address, 65 Quai d'Orsay), waiting to drink coffee or lemonade and hear young singers and musicians. In another adjunct of the church, its 300-seat theater, the professional Paris Theater Workshop-whose advisers include Jean Seberg and William Saroyan-presents Sartre, Beckett and Albee as part of "Open End," a freewheeling series of dramas, concerts and discussions...
...Gabon's 6,000 Frenchmen that meant only one thing: the U.S. had been behind the abortive coup in hopes of discountenancing le grand Charles. This pied-noir illogic reached all the way to Paris' Quai d'Orsay, where foreign-office officials helped spread the rumor. Last week the anti-American feeling coalesced into violence. A Simca-load of colons cruised past the U.S. embassy in Libreville, peppered the building with shotgun fire. An hour later a bomb exploded in the garden...
Since De Gaulle's return to power in 1958, the diplomats have become humbly aware that he was right and they were wrong. And he has had little to complain of since Couve de Murville moved into the Quai d'Orsay to help dispense the classic diplomacy that is both the invention and one of the glories of France. The tone and tradition were set by Cardinal Richelieu in the 17th century, when he served as Foreign Minister (and, later, Chief Minister) to King Louis XIII, and was the first to formulate such diplomatic axioms...
...Indian. Couve's castle, the Quai d'Orsay, is a massive pile begun in 1842 by King Louis Philippe for the Premiers of France and finished under...
...officials of the Quai d'Orsay are crowded into tiny offices in a large L-shaped building adjoining the Foreign Ministry. The service is competitive, as in the U.S., and most of its members are career men. A French diplomat is far less submerged in paper work than his U.S. counterpart. He is constantly urged to keep his cables brief and infrequent so that the total handle of cables at the Quai runs about 1,000 daily, less than half that of the U.S. State Department. The Quai's files are singularly bare of statistics. There...