Word: teau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rich, not from his plays and histories but because he was a shrewd investor who "would rise from a sick-bed and travel across France, if he saw a good profit to be made." Château Cirey in Champagne was tumbledown; to restore it, Voltaire put his credit at the disposal of Emilie's husband-who, in turn, put his wife and Château at the disposal of Voltaire. History does not show a more foursquare example of the eternal triangle...
...night a week after the election, as John Diefenbaker and Olive sat down to chicken sandwiches and ice cream in Ottawa's Château Laurier hotel, a telephone call came from Government House. While Olive wept softly with excitement, John was informed that on the following day Governor General Massey would ask him to form a new government of Canada...
HELICOPTER TOURS of the French château country will be started this summer by Belgium's Sabena World Airlines. It will offer nine-hour trip for close view of twelve Loire Valley châteaux (price: $72), plus 80-minute trip over six castles (price...
...dinner for Louis XIV, according to Mme. de Sévigné, the grand chef de cuisine at the Château Chantilly killed himself rather than face the Sun King without enough fish for his pièce de résistance. Fortunately, no such tragedy marred last week's visit of Britain's Queen Elizabeth to France, although one great cake prepared in her honor collapsed from the heat before she got to it and had to be hurriedly propped up. No one's life was held forfeit, and the first visit of a reigning...
...alikes of Chapter 1 are the novel's narrator, a middle-aging English professor of French history named John (no last name), with a queasy bachelor taste of loneliness and failure in his mouth; and the Count Jean de Gué, scapegrace lord of a decaying château and a possessive family at St. Gilles in Normandy...