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This was Lalique glass-the expensive, ubiquitous, famed bric-a-brac of the 19203. The flashiest examples brought from $3,000 to $12,000. Two factories in France, equipped with every modern mechanical device, fed Lalique glass to an eager world. A sleek shop on Paris' rue Royale was a mecca to droves of cashheavy U.S. tourists (a U.S. businessman once hurried to the shop in search of an idea for a catsup bottle...
Rene Lalique's highly specialized talent brought him exaggerated fame on two continents. Even the highroad between Fifth Avenue and the rue de la Paix was Lalique-paved, in part: his most triumphant commission was the decoration of the S.S. Normandie's main dining room...
...narrow old Rue Cambon, in front of the Chanel perfume shop, a double queue stretched half a block long. Forty fighting men, some with the mud of Germany still on their boots, pushed into a jewelry shop in the Rue Saint Honore. A perfume shop in the Rue de la Paix was closed at noon; two days' rations had been cleaned...
...Herald staff meant a finishing course in elementary journalism and a lifetime of nostalgia. In city rooms and editorial sanctums all over the U.S. there are oldtimers ready at the drop of a Martini to reminisce about the Herald's drafty, dingy shop in the rue du Louvre beside a clangorous trolley line; to swap legends about the fabulous, wispy, ageless columnist "Sparrow" Robertson who sent his copy over from Harry's New York Bar and lived 20 years in Paris knowing only one word of French-ici; to quote the letter signed "Old Philadelphia Lady" (asking...
Colonel Rol-Tanguy did not agree. For a time his headquarters on the Rue St. Dominique were cut off from telephonic communication with the War Ministry in the same building. Government ministers and C.N.R. representatives argued the issue. Last week it was settled. Colonel Rol-Tanguy went out as F.F.I, chief for Ile-de-France. His successor: General Revers, ex-postal clerk and a veteran FFIer. Colonel Rol-Tanguy remained as General Revers' chief of staff...