Word: petition
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...factory wall. Georges Poisson, assistant curator of the Ile de France Museum at Sceaux, traveled over to Choisy-le-Roi for a look. What he saw made his eyes pop. There, preserved under later coatings of the brick & mortar, stood the ornate facade of Choisy-le-Roi's "Petit Château"-the hideaway King Louis XV built for his mistress, Madame de Pompadour...
Modern Frenchmen had forgotten all about the Petit Château but in Louis XV's day it set their ancestors' tongues wagging from one end of France to the other. Frenchmen could only guess at what went on in the privacy of the little château. The royal architects discouraged prying eyes by setting its nine rooms-two boudoirs, dining room, a few guest rooms-in a small garden surrounded by a high wall. Even the servants were kept out of sight. The banquet room was equipped with an ingenious table volante, which could be lowered...
After Louis died in 1774, his hideaway fell on hard times. Louis XVI never used it, and during the French Revolution the royal residences at Choisy-le-Roi were wrecked. For a time, a locksmith occupied the site of the Petit Château; later a tile factory was built on the grounds. No one dreamed that so much as two stones of the old building, with its rich trim and fine, high windows, were left standing...
Benny's clothes are tailor-made; his miniature poodles, Muffin and Petit Pain, are white as suds...
...business or crossed the mayor's desk at St. Chamond. But he tucked those toward the rear of his mind, to concentrate on the one problem which his Frenchness told him was closest to the center of France's illness. André Siegfried once remarked of the petit bourgeois that "his heart is on the left, but his pocketbook is on the right." Pinay built his policy as Premier around one object-the Frenchman's pocketbook...