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...farm land is still dotted with fine 18th and 19th century houses in a variety of styles: modest Colonial, ample Federal, exuberant Victorian. Indeed, says Frederick Hartt, chairman of the University of Virginia's art department, Green Springs is an "American equivalent" of France's château region or the villa-studded hills outside Florence. So it was here that the Commonwealth of Virginia decided, in its infinite wisdom, to build an $8,000,000, 200-acre concrete prison complex, complete with guard tower...
...carrousel ride. She has also discovered that there are several new French hotels where children can be left on their own. These hotels are "dedicated to reliable loving care for a day, night, week or longer." One is the Botel near Paris, "which looks like a dollhouse château" and has playground equipment, a pony stable, a nurse and young governesses...
...with you that I shall end my life." Despite that airy prediction, the two drifted apart after a brief affair, and they did not meet again until 1967. Malraux, then separated from his wife Madeleine, determined to keep his prophecy. He moved into the Vilmorin château at Verières-le-Buisson. not far from Paris, beginning a period of almost carefree happiness. Then tragedy struck, as it had so many times in Malraux's life. The day after Christmas in 1969, Louise suddenly died of a heart attack. Malraux's despair was such, relates...
Picasso still owns the Château de Boisgeloup near Gisors, which he bought in 1931; a sumptuous Belie Epoque villa at Cannes, La Californie (which he quit in pique when a real estate developer put apartment blocks on the land below the garden, ruining the view); and the enormous castle of Vauvenargues on the north flank of the hill that Cézanne often painted, Mont St.-Victoire. But Mougins has become his cloister. "He doesn't travel any more. He hardly even goes into Cannes
...west of Paris Viscount Paul de La Panouse finds himself beset by too many of the beasts. La Panouse, 27, whose family coat of arms portrays-naturally-a lion, founded a wild-game park three years ago. On the spacious grounds around his family's Renaissance Château de Thoiry, he started out with a score of lions. Obviously French food and the sweeping savannas of the Ile-de-France region agreed with the animals. They proliferated so rapidly that the desperate viscount is now trying to export his surplus. To where? Where else? Africa...