Word: quai
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Left Bank of the Seine, which gets its popular name from its address: 37 Quai d'Orsay. On a grey, windy afternoon last week, as barges moved slowly upriver and traffic jams clogged the bridges and boulevards of Paris, Couve sat at his leather-topped, bronze-filigree desk. There had been 90 minutes of Gaullist oratory the day before, and now Couve was leafing through two pink paper folders, fat with world reaction and the interminable word traffic of modern diplomacy. A red slash across the corner of a paper meant an outgoing cable, a green slash an incoming...
...Henri IV and his Italian queen, Marie de Medici, and warmed by the glow of a log fire, Couve kept at his workhorse job. For though the policy objectives of France are laid down in the presidential offices at the Elysee Palace, it is across the river at the Quai d'Orsay, and inside Couve's nimble and encyclopedic head, that the means for action are sorted out and applied...
Since De Gaulle's return to power in 1958, the diplomats have become humbly aware that he was right and they were wrong. And he has had little to complain of since Couve de Murville moved into the Quai d'Orsay to help dispense the classic diplomacy that is both the invention and one of the glories of France. The tone and tradition were set by Cardinal Richelieu in the 17th century, when he served as Foreign Minister (and, later, Chief Minister) to King Louis XIII, and was the first to formulate such diplomatic axioms...
...Indian. Couve's castle, the Quai d'Orsay, is a massive pile begun in 1842 by King Louis Philippe for the Premiers of France and finished under...
...officials of the Quai d'Orsay are crowded into tiny offices in a large L-shaped building adjoining the Foreign Ministry. The service is competitive, as in the U.S., and most of its members are career men. A French diplomat is far less submerged in paper work than his U.S. counterpart. He is constantly urged to keep his cables brief and infrequent so that the total handle of cables at the Quai runs about 1,000 daily, less than half that of the U.S. State Department. The Quai's files are singularly bare of statistics. There...