Word: teau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Australian port," so labeled, may not be sold in Great Britain, nor may Spanish "champagne" be sold in Spain. We in America have eliminated all but a handful of these so-called generic names, and American vintners may no longer market, as in the bad old days, "Château d'Yquem" and "Château Margaux" from California...
...loan from Manhattan's Whitney Museum, 22 realistic paintings (among them: works by Edward Hopper, John Sloan, Maurice Sterne, Reginald Marsh Charles Sheeler) are on view in the ancient French Riviera château fortress of La Napoule. Sponsored by the La Napoul( Art Foundation-Henry Clews Memorial the show, titled "American Realism in the Twentieth Century," is aimed at bringing Europe "another page of American art history." Said one U.S. cultural attaché in France: "At last we have something to show Europeans besides abstract blotches and curlicues...
...decoy), a slim, white-haired man whose features were drawn with fatigue slipped quietly out the back door of the Hotel Matignon and got into another car. Half an hour later Pierre Pflimlin, who was completing his 13th day as Premier of France, walked into the Château de La Celle-Saint-Cloud, a government-owned residence in the Paris suburbs. Waiting for Pflimlin in the chateau was the looming, angular figure of General Charles de Gaulle...
...Josephine's château at Malmaison, Napoleon (a very bad shot) delighted in shooting at the Empress' swans to torment her. When in good spirits, he would slap Josephine on the shoulders while she begged, "Do stop it, do stop it, Bonaparte." Josephine's maid, Mlle. Avrillon, recalled, "We could estimate the degree of his good humor by how much he hurt us. One day when he was obviously better pleased than usual, he pinched my cheek so hard I could not repress a scream...
...drawings in Manhattan at the Museum of Modern Art's Rockefeller Guest House. Given his first print, Picasso's Dance of Salome, by his father when he was a 13-year-old schoolboy in Switzerland, he bought 19th century French Realist Gustave Courbet's Château Bleu six months after graduating from Yale. Prosperous from his family yarn business, he has steadily bought works by 20th century French, German and American artists. His house in suburban Greenwich, Conn, is filled to the bathroom walls, and the lawn has a skyward-staring, 5½-ft. bronze...