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...During the French Revolution, the school doubled as a jail for "enemies" of the Revolution, including Old Grad Robespierre, on his way to the guillotine. So combustible was 19th century France that between 1801 and 1873 the school was renamed eight times-from the Lycée Impérial (Napoleon's era) to the Lycée Descartes (the 1848 revolution). What never changed was the stunning output of famous men. Painters Degas, Delacroix and Géricault went there; so did Sculptor Frederic Auguste Bertholdi, who designed the Statue of Liberty. Louis-le-grand taught Writers Victor...
...Life that appeared six years later. But the published Tour varied considerably from the actual journal that Boswell kept, most of which turned up a generation ago in a croquet box at an Irish castle. First brought out in 1936. the journal is now reprinted with much supplementary mate rial drawn from documents that have since come to light. Densely annotated, the present volume is as formidable as Johnson, but much of it, freed of foot notes, is also as chatty as only Boswell could...
...royal tastes found painful-even though the program was useful and was ably run by Saud's younger brother, Crown Prince Feisal, 56, the hawk-nosed heir to the throne. Taking over virtually all powers in 1958, Feisal proceeded to turn in surplus budgets and stabilize the faltering rial at five to the dollar. He clipped the King's and the princes' spending money until they howled. He also patched up Saud's feud with Nasser, who was understandably annoyed at reports that Saud had spent $5,000,000 trying to have him assassinated. But Feisal...
...voice; Jerry Orbach is a deft puppetmaster; as Marco and his gal, James Mitchell and Kaye Ballard have amusing scenes, particularly one where she is locked in a box through which he plunges swords. But the evening's peak comes with a whirling and jubilant "Grand Impérial Cirque de Paris" dance number, paced by the memorable little man of La Plume de Ma Tante, Pierre Olaf. Fetchingly nimble and stylish as a dancer, mime and clown, Olaf-except for this number-is reduced to a colorless speaking part. Had his face, his feet and his engaging Frenchness...
...experts on loan from the International Monetary Fund, Feisal proceeded to balance the budget by severe maneuvers, even slashing the allowances of pampered princelings and forbidding, for a period of six months, the import of a single Cadillac. Under Feisal, both prices and the public debt declined, while the rial stabilized at about five to the dollar...