Word: salons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MADAME DE, by Louise de Vilmorin, translated by Duff Cooper (54 pp.; Messner; $2.50), is a literary visit from the frail, salon-bred French writer whose fans think that she may succeed to Colette's place as first lady of French letters. Author de Vilmorin has a wonderful flair for wacky as well as genuine elegance, and writes with a kind of passionate superficiality rarely attempted since the courtly novel died with the French court. Madame De, already known to some U.S. moviegoers in an excellent screen version (TIME, July 26), is a high-society triangle in which...
...Salon info Saloon. Desperate Scenery is as far from Paris Original as a saloon is from a salon. It is the seventh volume in a series called Items on the Grand Account, 63-year-old Elliot Paul's leisurely recital of his life and times. Paul was 19 and bumming through the Far West on close to his last dime in the summer of 1910, when the Jackson Lake Dam, spanning the Snake River in northwest Wyoming, went out. With an engineering brother in the family and some previous surveying experience of his own, Paul found it easy...
Firmly, calculating, she worked her way into the King's arms by making her salon a favorite with the most brilliant of France's intellectuals-Philosophers Montesquieu, Helvétius, the great Voltaire himself. The decisive meeting of the King and the beautiful bluestocking occurred at the splendid "Ball of the Clipped Yew Trees," when 35-year-old Louis and his courtiers masked themselves with headdresses of yew branches. One poor lady of the court allowed herself to be seduced by a right-royal-looking "yew tree"-only to find on her return to the ballroom that...
John Austin '56 has divided his Piano Suite for Children into brief sections whose charm lies in their simplicity. Occasionally he takes the title too literally and the result (as in Chorale and Play) is merely pretty salon music. But the movements Song and Duet have a quietly reflective beauty that pervades the suite as a whole...
...Hurry. Next day, Dulles called at the Quai d'Orsay, spent half an hour with Bidault in his private office, prodding him to action on EDC (see below), then went upstairs to the tapestry-hung Salon de Beauvais, where the Indo-Chinese experts were waiting. Dulles went directly to the central problem: France's long-standing resistance to "internationalizing" the Indo-Chinese war. its eagerness to control all the talking at Geneva...