Word: teau
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...Contentieux. That was an over statement, but no one could deny that the Congo's shrewd, hard-bargaining Premier had won a major victory. During less than ten days of negotiations-first with businessmen at Brussels' Cháteau de Val-Duchesse, later with Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak-Tshombe had resolved a 41-year-old wrangle between Belgium and its former colony, which had come to be known as "le contentieux...
...Bonn, De Gaulle had pointedly kept Erhard waiting a quarter of an hour while he reminisced with Adenauer about the solidarity of the good old days. But now as Erhard's black Citroën pulled up before De Gaulle's 14th century cháteau at Rambouillet, the German flag was smartly run up the crenelated tower looming over the courtyard, and there was a smiling Charles himself waiting with outstretched arms for the Chancellor. And in some six hours of talk that followed, De Gaulle was all paternal charm and magnanimity...
...still bubbling to fermentation in casks of Bosnian oak, may well be a notable year as well as an abundant one. For all France, it is a happy relief after disastrous 1963-a summer so wet and sunless that many of the great vineyards, such as Château d'Yquem and Château Cheval Blanc, sold their entire harvest as vin ordinaire...
...delay were lucky. A solid week of rain that began on Oct. 7 stopped harvesting cold (wet grapes cannot be picked for fear that water may contaminate the juice) and halted the pourriture noble-:the "noble rot"−that is necessary for late ripening Château d'Yquem and other sweet sauternes...
Clearly, Château cannot stand on its plot alone. But Vadim goes farther to bring it to sure ruin by translating high comedy into languid boudoir farce. Time and again he sacrifices wit, worldliness and style to make room for a blonde (Vitti) in a bed sheet-the Vadim trademark-then repeats the obligatory routine with a brunette (Hardy). What he conveys, at last, is a boyish conviction that these bored, civilized votaries of pleasure might be just the sort for a fun weekend, but no longer. Sagan's sidelong glance at the enigma of women, in Vadim...