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...society, wealthy daughter of Michel H. de Young, co-founder of the San Francisco Chronicle, who for half a century was a notable patron of the arts, and a director of both the symphony and opera associations; of a heart attack; at Rose-court, her pink-stucco château in suburban Hillsborough...
...young whippersnapper, and with some justice he felt he had been of more service to the state. Renowned as a courtier, conversationalist and diplomat, he had devised dozens of ingenious schemes to finance France's war with Spain, and when he decided to build himself a château on a tract of land that he owned halfway between Paris and Fontainebleau, he spared no expense. He summoned Louis Le Vau, the leading architect of the day, Charles Le Brun, a painter and interior decorator, and a landscape designer named André Le Nôtre. A special workshop...
Priming the Pump. Deming led the U.S. delegation to a two-day Paris session of treasury and central bank officials from ten nations at which the Europeans charted their new course. At a meeting in the elegant privacy of Château de la Muette, home of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the group agreed that the wherewithal to finance world trade will shrink by $4 billion over the next twelve months as a result of the British and U.S. retrenchments. That is precisely the amount by which the reserves of the six Common Market countries rose during...
Marvin eventually wins respect from them and from his superiors, but only after the mission has been accomplished-at a terrible cost. The first of the twelve dies as they parachute into occupied France. The other eleven stay alive long enough to enter the target, a huge château staffed and stuffed with German brass. Abruptly the place begins to chatter with crossfire and exploding grenades. One by one, the dirty dozen get knocked off as they kill most of the officers and blow the building to bits in some of the loudest, bloodiest battle scenes since Darryl Zanuck...
Modernists will make a beeline for the Maeght Foundation in sunny St.-Paul-de-Vence, with its celebrated abundance of Picassos, Chagalls and Mirós, then move on to the Musée Fernand Léger in Biot and the Picasso museum in the Château Grimaldi in Antibes. And for some 30,000 lovers of ironwork-from forthright masculine forging to lacy feminine filigree, from the Roman keys to the needlepoint balustrade that graced Mme. de Pompadour's country mansion-there is Rouen's Musée Le Secq des Tournelles...