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Thirteen months ago, before lunch with three prominent journalists, French President Georges Pompidou remarked: "To each his troubles. Nixon has Watergate, and as for me, I am going to die." None of his three companions-Françoise Giroud of L' Express, Pierre Viansson-Ponté of Le Monde and Roland Faure of L 'Aurore-used the information directly or indirectly while Pompidou lived. Nor did Giroud publish the news that Pompidou was suffering from multiple myeloma (bone-marrow cancer), a fact she had learned prior to the lunch last spring...
...birthday celebrations, and there were none last week. Still, Malraux has reached a degree of eminence at which there is universal agreement on his importance, if virtually none on his foremost achievement. Some believe that Malraux will be remembered largely for his writing. "A very great writer," says Pierre Viansson-Ponté, political editor of Le Monde. "With their backgrounds of the Far East, Spain and the French Resistance, Malraux's works are linked with life." In the political arena, Malraux receives fewer encomiums, least of all from the young. University students today read Man's Fate, Malraux...
Despite Malraux's early sympathy for militant Trotskyism, it was his relationship with Charles de Gaulle-a relationship that Le Monde's Viansson-Ponté likens to that of "sovereign and poet laureate"-that gave lasting political direction to his career. The French President considered his handsome Culture Minister "my brilliant friend" and "incomparable witness." As Malraux saw it, De Gaulle gave the French a consciousness of their own greatness...
...time of farewell to men or places, there was last week an inevitable final twinge of nostalgia and loss. Weary as they are of greatness, the French could not help mourning its passing. No one expressed it better than one of France's most distinguished political writers, Pierre Viansson-Ponté: "Even among his opponents, even among those who campaigned relentlessly for the 'No,' even among those Frenchmen who could no longer stand his self-assurance and his pride, many felt a sudden pang when they thought of him on Sunday night. Thirty years on the stage, sometimes in the glare...
...King and His Court casts doubt on De Gaulle's infallibility, but it leaves no doubt of his ascendancy over the government and imagination of France. With little profundity--and little desire to be profound--Pierre Viansson-Ponte daubs a diverting portrait of a democratic reign and the motley entourage that supports...