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Died. André Géraud, 92, Cassandra-like French columnist known as Pertinax (Latin for resolute); in Ségur-le-Château, France. In his daily columns in Echo de Paris, Pertinax in the 1930s warned about the danger of appeasing Hitler. When Nazi panzers crushed France in 1940, he escaped via Bordeaux on an English destroyer. In the U.S. during the war, he wrote his best-known work, The Gravediggers of France, a historical exposé of the men responsible for his country's fall...
...discussion of energy was also on the agenda of the Giscard-Brezhnev meetings, which took place at the Château at Rambouillet, 30 miles southwest of Paris. They signed a five-year economic pact and, in exchange for aid and credits, the Soviet Union will sell
Seated in a wooden breakfast alcove, Joni, her roommate John Guerin and I eat three meticulously cooked courses while the spiced apple dumplings cool on the sideboard. "You should try this," she says of a bottle of red wine. "We always drink Château Margaux. It costs $12 but it tastes like a $60 bottle...
...Finally, a representative of the literary ladies and gentlemen who had been deliberating over a luncheon that included foie gras des Landes en gelée au porto, faisan rôti au pommes en liard fromages and profiteroles (enhanced by Bâtard-Montrachet 1970 and Château Nenin 1967) emerged from a private dining room on the third floor, stepped before the microphones and pronounced the verdict. The 1974 Prix Goncourt, the most illustrious of the 2,000 awards that France annually bestows on its writers, went to Pascal Laine, 32, for his novel La Dentelli...
...Alinsky's Diamond he quits his familiar landscape and sets out on a literary crusade nearly as unfortunate as the one he describes in this novel. In the beginning, Francis X. Murphy, from Aruba, Ohio, is rotting away in a French château. He has married a baron's daughter and ruined her family - indeed the whole village of Vardille-sur-Lac - by being caught doctoring the local wine. As penance, Murphy resolves to drink himself to death by swallowing all 12,000 unsalable bottles...