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...head." But as France's problems-notably in Indo-China and with the European Defense Community-grew worse, Dillon stepped up to the challenge of his assignment. He and Phyllis spent an hour daily with a French tutor; within weeks Dillon was visiting the Quai d'Orsay without an interpreter. In a social swim where lavish entertainment was a matter of courses...
...they sat down in the Quai d'Orsay's gilded Salon de Beauvais in Paris to work out an allied reply to the latest Communist gambits, it was U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk who was most eager for action. All the ministers agreed that, if need be, the West would have to risk war. But all still hoped to find a formula for peace; all now recognized that major negotiations with Russia-perhaps even a summit meeting-would be necessary before the year...
...Paris pointed out, the Tunisians fired the first shot. When Hammarskjold tried to see Admiral Maurice Amman, the French commander in Bizerte, he was curtly told that no interview was possible. Hammarskjold sent a message to De Gaulle proposing a private meeting in Paris. A Quai d'Orsay spokesman replied with a piece of calculated insolence such as only the French can manage: "The Secretary-General has been informed of the point of view of the French government by a note which will render his voyage to Paris unnecessary...
Then De Gaulle guided his guest to a waiting Citroën for the ten-mile motorcade to the Kennedys' residence in Paris, the Palais des Affaires Etrangeres on the Quai d'Orsay. In deference to onetime (1950) Sorbonne Student Jackie, who followed in a car with Madame de Gaulle, the route included the famed Boul' Mich'?cobblestoned main drag of the university district?before crossing the Seine into downtown Paris...
Mistresses & Madonnas. Twice daily after she arrived in Paris, Alexandre went to Jackie's apartments on the Quai d'Orsay, brushing and shaping her hair in a huge silvery, mother-of-pearl bathroom. For a formal reception at the Elysee Palace, Alexandre, declaring himself inspired by pictures of Gothic Madonnas, thickened Jackie's bangs and "dressed her cheeks" with two sweeping waves. Anticipating complaints that the style hid too much of Jackie's face, Alexandre said: "A beautiful face needs foliage around it." For a ball next night at Versailles, Alexandre moved on from the Madonnas...