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...impasse, which might well have doomed the Kennedy Round to failure, was resolved when Nils Montan, chief Scandinavian negotiator, persuaded Roth and the Common Market's Rey to lunch with him at the Geneva Intercontinental Hotel. Over filet mignon de veau and a bottle of 1962 Chāteau Capbern St. Estéphe, tempers cooled. Roth promised to stay in Geneva; Rey agreed to quit stalling and wind up the negotiations promptly...
FRANCE still offers Paris as its main (and very expensive) attraction. This year, to add some zing to the traditional cathedral and cháteau trips, there is an association called Relais de Campagne to plan gourmet tours of 76 superb country inns in the provinces. Up for rediscovery this season: Périgord, a dreamy river-filled region of south-central France long famed for its truffles, which offers splendid, inexpensive food, as well as a growing number of excellent hotels...
...TEAU. French Screenwriter Jean-Paul Rappeneau (That Man From Rio) makes his directorial debut with a fresh and funny farce about the German Occupation and the French preoccupation...
...teau. Normandy. The 6th of June, 1944. Fire bombs explode overhead. Parachutes dot the warm night sky. Below, a captain of the Resistance is locked in combat with a German major. The cause of their quarrel: a woman, naturally. In France, D-day or no Dday, S for sex comes first...
...Steegmuller notes, the themes of Flaubert's mature novels "are themes that had already engrossed him in his youthful writings." So too with his experiences. "Emma Bovary's great night of dancing at the C´áteau de la Vaubyessard," for example, is directly traceable to the journal, in which Flaubert reminisces briefly about a ball at the cháteau of the Marquis de Pomereu...