“Alexander Calder in Saché,” by John Russell, was originally published in the July 1967 issue of Vogue.

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In the mid-1960's something has gone out of the romance between France and America, and when individuals on one side look over to the other, it is across a wasteland of lost illusions. The American reared on the novels and memoirs of the great expatriates finds before him a new France: a bustling short-haired technocracy fired by le Coke , le beefburger , and le drugstore , a France as remote from The Ambassadors or Tender Is the Night as is the Russia of Kosygin from the Russia of Turgenev.

In this new France, the sons of yesterday's gamekeepers and handymen are more likely to give

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