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Quai d'Orsay |
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Quai d'Orsay (kā dôrsā`), quay on the left bank of the Seine River in Paris, extending from the Eiffel Tower to the Palais Bourbon (housing the national assembly). Next to the Palais Bourbon stands the French ministry of foreign affairs, a vast palatial building, which is often referred to as simply the Quai d'Orsay. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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DURING de Gaulle's presidency; a foreign office wall in the Quai D'Orsay bore a map of one of France's African possessions with an annotation defining its major strategic divisions, rather along lines that seem eerily relevant to how Iraq breaks down today (and may break up tomorrow). Absent was the stiff protest from Whitehall to the Quai D'orsay. In private moments he spoke alarmingly of a long twilight struggle with the Bolsheviks; but that was not seen as evidence of pessimism or exhaustion but of an attractive worldliness, a newly mature American statecraft on the model of Whitehall or the Quai d'Orsay. |
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