Word: orsay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...usual sense, and he had asked that each leader look on it as if it were a meeting of his own domestic Cabinet. Only the heads of government and their foreign ministers attended the main meetings in the Salon de 1'Horloge of the Quai d'Orsay; in the past, delegations often numbered 20 or more. There was also a concerted and largely successful effort to ensure a kind of Cabinet secrecy by barring the usual leaks to the press. Protocol was kept to a minimum, and pomp was virtually banned. Giscard even asked his colleagues to wear...
Sauvagnargues's unexpected move from the French embassy in Bonn to the Quai d'Orsay was in itself a mild slap at the Gaullist orthodoxy. A wartime supporter of De Gaulle's, Sauvagnargues earned the general's disfavor later on, when he publicly allowed that France might want to encourage the continuance of the Atlantic Alliance. He was promptly banished to a long career of postings abroad, culminating in his appointment as Ambassador to West Germany...
...European diplomat has spoken out as strongly as Jobert against a major Kissinger achievement: American-Soviet detente. In an interview last week in his Quai d'Orsay offices with TIME
Angry Retort. A few hectic hours later, the Quai d'Orsay dismissed the charge, insisting that Eban had failed to furnish "any document or any proof." The Israelis angrily retorted that Eban had given Hure "exact, precise, detailed and well-founded information," and awaited a formal reply. At week's end the French had yet to make any further comment...
...American wife and a son in the American School of Paris, won himself many friends in Washington by helping with the difficult arrangements for the secret talks on Viet Nam. Though he now moves out of the shadows of the Elysée to the Quai d'Orsay, he remains Pompidou's man, carrying out Pompidou's foreign policy...