Word: xiv
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Academie Maxim's was founded two and a half years ago by Maggie Vaudable, wife of the restaurant's present owner, to instruct a carefully selected group of girls in "the special sense of savoir-vivre that the French have prided themselves on since Louis XIV." Though the school claims to be open to all girls sufficiently familiar with the French language and culture to benefit from-not simply get along in-the all-French classes, in practice the students are recruited through a social filtering system that stretches through Europe and the U.S., Canada and Latin America...
...overwhelming. The Algerian honor guard wore sneakers for the arrival ceremony; Algeria's Defense Minister Houari Boumedienne, was in an unadorned civilian overcoat-no medals, no epaulets-and kept it on even at a state reception that evening. Though Hassan is about as interested in socialism as Louis XIV was, his hosts insisted on showing him one state farm and socialist work project after another. At the end of three days, Hassan wore a fixed smile that seemed cemented to his face...
...your Feb. 8 cover portrait: the hat may be that of Napoleon, the bust that of Louis XIV, but the words coming from le grand Charles's mouth can only be those of that witty but cynical monarch Louis XV: "Aprés moi, le déluge...
...poured into New York, where Writer Robert McLaughlin, with the aid of Researcher Vera Kovarsky, wrote the story for Senior Editor Edward Hughes. For the cover, Artist Boris Chaliapin reached back to two other men who had visions of French grandeur, and placed Napoleon's hat on Louis XIV...
...Gaulle's European design is introverted, smaller, and dependent more on audacity and cleverness than on sheer power. In effect, it represents another of the historic efforts to create a unified Europe under French leadership-an ambition that was pursued in the past by Charlemagne, Louis XIV, Napoleon Bonaparte and Napoleon III. To De Gaulle, Europe's rivers and mountains are not barriers, but the oceans are. Since 1940 he has dreamed of persuading the "states along the Rhine, the Alps and the Pyrenees to form a political, economic and strategic bloc; to establish this organization...