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...rignon '62 and the guests kept pouring out Franco-German friendship. At one particularly ebullient moment, De Gaulle rose with a toast to "the friendship that our two peoples have sealed, guided by reason and emotion alike." Then a messenger arrived from the Quai d'Orsay, bearing an urgent news dispatch for Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville. It was datelined Ravensburg, West Germany, and it froze the frail Couve in his mahogany chair. It also launched one of the stormiest-and most ludicrous-weeks to date in the increasingly difficult area of Franco-German relations...
...bons mots, insists Tournoux, this one has been used by De Gaulle over and over in private conversations. "I was told this one by two ministers who are still in the government, by one minister who has since resigned and by two senior officials in the Quai d'Orsay. Moreover, Le Monde published the remark, quoting an ambassador...
...Washington's social scene when he was the French ambassador there. Now that Hervé is the No. 2 man in the French Foreign Ministry, there is some muttering that Nicole should not make such a public spectacle of herself, but she replies sweetly: "The Quai d'Orsay has never said a word to me about...
Despite raised eyebrows at the Quai d'Orsay, Nicole announced her appointment as Cardin's publicity director soon after Husband Herve Alphand was recalled from his post as French ambassador. Explained Nicole, who has been on the International Best-Dressed List for six years: "It is time that someone did something for Frenchwomen. One should give them the possibility, even on a small budget, to have the stamp of a great couturier...
Partly as a result of such well-publicized escapades, the congressional traveler nowadays is more likely to head for the Quai d'Orsay than the Folies-Bergère. In 1965 more than 100 Senators and Congressmen-roughly one-fifth of the combined membership-will have traveled outside the country, ranging round the globe from Warsaw to Wellington, Delhi to Danang...