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...Duke Max Joseph, struck with the beauty of the Theatre de l'Odéon in Paris, had decreed that his court erect an improved replica; though Munich at the time had only 35,000 inhabitants, the theater was built to full Parisian scale, at a cost of 800,000 gold ducats-plus free building materials contributed by unenthusiastic peasants. Only five years after its opening, though, the building burned to the ground. Duke Max watched the blaze and wailed through his tears: "I won't survive this loss-my theater, my beautiful theater...
...feelings of national identity. French until recently was the world's diplomatic language. Only 65 million people now speak it as a first language; less than one-fourth of the U.N.'s 111 member nations still use it in debates. Franglais is spreading so fast, argues Parisian Linguist Alain Guillermou, that U.S. French teachers may soon have nothing to teach. Guillermou calls for a national commission to police Américanolatres on the ground that Franglais is not only a linguistic sin but is also "bad for morals...
Home was an apartment in Hassan's Bahia Palace, furnished in white leather and looking out over vast palm groves toward the Atlas Mountains. There a French hair stylist called frequently, did Jackie's hair in a fetching "Parisian nymph" style. Then, reclining on deep-cushioned divans, she would dine with princes of the royal court at low Moroccan tables while Andalusian music trilled a background...
...tread, Charles de Gaulle in 1961 tried to battle inflation by decreeing a cut in butchers' profit margins, which in many cases amounted to 50%. Again this year, De Gaulle's regime demanded that butchers cut some fat from their prices. Last week, striking back, indignant Parisian butchers closed clown 3,355 of 3,744 butcher shops in greater Paris and cut off beef purchases from La Villette, the vast, archaic meat-wholesaling center on the edge of the city. That strictly limited the capital's supply. Result: chaos...
...another matter. Designer Ita Maximowna's sets are airy and unpretentious-a close match with Massenet's dulcet music and the story of his heroine's capricious pursuit of an early death. In Manon's virgin youth, the stage is warmed by springtime; in her Parisian tryst, the shabbiness of the curtains and walls is almost a state of mind; when she dies, her lover's desolation is framed in a lane of twisted tree stumps. Anna Moffo and Nicolai Gedda as Manon and the Chevalier Des Grieux seemed nervous with the French libretto...