Word: tropez
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comic strips was trying to solve a wave of Riviera art heists, a band of thieves last week made off with the biggest haul of masterpieces in modern French history: 57 canvases lifted off the unguarded, uninsured walls of the Annonciade Municipal Museum in chic Saint-Tropez. Value of the fric-frac, as a robbery is known in France: $1,500,000, including Matisses, Derains, Dufys, Vlamincks and a pair by Dunoyer de Segonzac, curator of the museum, who was away at the moment to supervise a big show of his own works in Geneva...
Flics, who raced to Saint-Tropez from Marseille, wondered how the picture poachers expected to dispose of easily recognized works. Reputable dealers and patrons would shun them. There was no insurance company to bargain with, since the city had no funds for $30,000 annual premiums that would have been necessary. The burglars' only hope of reward seemed to be in ransom, and Saint-Tropez has no blood money to spare...
...their profound error." Later, in an evening that Parisians already refer to as La Nuit Folle (Mad Night), Minister of Culture Andre (Man's Fate) Malraux delivered a stirring address to an unlikely crowd of Resistance veterans, movie starlets, beatniks and the sports-car set up from St.-Tropez. They all struggled into ill-fitting boots and khaki uniforms as members of an impromptu militia...
Died. Charles Schneider, 62, head since 1942 of Schneider et Cie, big French holding company (more than $300 million in assets), whose family has been one of Europe's top steel and heavy-equipment manufacturers for four generations; of a heart attack; in Saint-Tropez, France...