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HELICOPTER TOURS of the French château country will be started this summer by Belgium's Sabena World Airlines. It will offer nine-hour trip for close view of twelve Loire Valley châteaux (price: $72), plus 80-minute trip over six castles (price...
...dinner for Louis XIV, according to Mme. de Sévigné, the grand chef de cuisine at the Château Chantilly killed himself rather than face the Sun King without enough fish for his pièce de résistance. Fortunately, no such tragedy marred last week's visit of Britain's Queen Elizabeth to France, although one great cake prepared in her honor collapsed from the heat before she got to it and had to be hurriedly propped up. No one's life was held forfeit, and the first visit of a reigning...
...alikes of Chapter 1 are the novel's narrator, a middle-aging English professor of French history named John (no last name), with a queasy bachelor taste of loneliness and failure in his mouth; and the Count Jean de Gué, scapegrace lord of a decaying château and a possessive family at St. Gilles in Normandy...
...smallest part of the luxury market. To U.S. economists, the amazing fact about the new luxury market is the broadening and democratization of both the market and the luxuries themselves. Gone are the days when luxury meant a private railroad car, a steam yacht, a Newport château. From an emphasis on the ostentatious things that go with ceremony, luxury has focused on the convenient gadgets that make life easy for the many...
...addressed themselves to the problem with the energy of Belgium's 59-year-old Baron Marcel Schaetzen de Schaetzenhoff. Last week the Baron invited some of the leading horn groups of Europe to a Grand Festival of Hunting Horns and Venery* held at his 10th century Château of Laarne near Ghent...