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...academe's bitterest Johnson baiters, reached for a preposterous historical parallel. The Administration's insistence on negotiating with Hanoi rather than directly with the Viet Cong, he averred, was "like George III of England saying he won't negotiate with Washington and Hamilton, only with Louis XVI...
...bill of complaint, filed yesterday by Gerald Berlin, Bowles' attorney, Bowles alleged that the oath was in viclation of the first, ninth and fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, and Articles XII and XVI of the Deceleration of Rights of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...
...those who treasure taste, Louis is the label for some of the world's greatest antiques. France's Louis XVI lent his name to a revival of Greco-Roman décor. Louis XV ruled in a time when furniture makers shunned the straight line, and Louis XIV, the Sun King, is still a synonym for sumptuousness. Now antiques addicts are turning back to an even earlier Louis-the 13th-whose style furnished France when it was becoming the first great nation in Europe...
...Port Wife. His granddaughters, romanticizing Audubon's own embellished accounts, implied that he might have been France's "lost Dauphin"-the son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, whom she tried to smuggle out of France just before she died on the guillotine. John Audubon was, in fact, the bastard son of a Breton-born chambermaid, and was sired not at Versailles but in Haiti in 1785. The father was Jean Audubon, a captain of French merchantmen and men-of-war. Though he commanded a corvette in Count de Grasse's fleet at the surrender of Yorktown...
...World War II. Maxime (Charles D. Gray), a rich aristocratic rightist, decides to hold a wig party in a Gothic catacomb of a cellar. All his guests are to come as leading figures of the Revolution. Maxime himself plays Saint-Just. Other friends play Danton, Marie Antoinette, Louis XVI ("virtually a nonspeaking role") and the Comte de Mirabeau. The butt of the party is to be Bitos (Donald Pleasence), the local deputy prosecutor, an ex-classmate of Maxime's and the son of a washerwoman. He comes as Robespierre...