Word: quai
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much real fear of disorderly protests. "The French are awfully good at maintaining order when they want to," said a U.S. official, "and we think they'll want to." The capital's riot cops?the Algeria-honed Compagnie Republicaine de Securite?are among the best anywhere. Moreover, the Quai d'Orsay's chief Asia expert, Etienne Manac'h, is both reliable and impartial in his dealings with foreign diplomats...
Since coming to France in February 1961 as head of a two-man trade delegation, Bo has maintained close relations with the Quai d'Orsay, into which he bobs as regularly as a cloisonne yoyo, and also enjoys a following among Latins and Arabs, with whom he trades revolutionary lore. He comes by it honestly, for Bo is one of the Viet Minh's "old comrades." As a Viet Minh major, he was wounded and captured by the French, who even then were impressed. Born July 9, 1917, in a Mekong Delta town 150 miles from Saigon...
...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...
...most of his 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...
...spent brightening up 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...