is it versaille >> i think the triompe it's just as beautiful as server -- vers. i don't like to look over someone's shoulder as they're painting. >> charlie: that's the magic of france, you can find so much great food and culture that's apart from paris. >> absolutely. >> charlie: it's not just versailles and places like that. >> like versaille we went to so many years ago, it was nderful. it was a magical experience. but when we of we went back recently, there were so many lines, i stayed in the garden. >> charlie: you stayed at five or six hotelou love in paris. >> no. we i've been renting apartments. >> charlie: you always rent an apartment. >> yes. >> charlie: why do you do that? >> wl, i used to stay in hotels, and i wasn't really crazy about paris. and then someone toldus about this marvelous apartment overlooking the seinne and we rented it and i just fell in love with paris and i never wanted to leave. >> charlie: never athe same apartment, different apartme. >> no. i rented that apartment for 13 years until the man die that opened it. >> charlie: and sol

he was working on the versailles treaty. he was trying to craft the league of nations. he was giving flower ri speeches about how democracy had triumphed, and we were entering a new age of peace. back at home it was absolute chaos. there was chaos all over the world. the soviet union had risen, there was, there were, you know, jewish people were being killed in the ukraine, armenians were being killed in turkey, british colonial forces in india were shooting people. it was absolutely a time of chaos. europe was enflamed. in the united states, there was runaway inflation, huge labor strikes, lots of talk by anarchists and communists about overthrowing capitalism, and there was just anxiety everywhere. there was a political cartoon that ran at the time which shows the globe in bed just biting his fingernails while all of these terrible things are circling around his head. everybody was anxious. and the racial conditions that were already existing in the united states flared up as a result. and there were three things occurring in the united states at the time. they were a

professionals that versailles health plan terror and violence my knowledge i get new ideas from ikea this hundred is one of the cells in students who take advantage of the moscow state university exchange programs every year some of them will eventually be rewarded with a very special kind of diploma a double one in the form at the double diploma means you started in two universities in two different countries and you're a dictation is acknowledging both of these countries it means more opportunities for those who received it as a team when you're still at them clickable you the university staff believe a mood in a globalized world makes going abroad for a to cation an a true experience that point of view is shared by sponsor a us student who is doing a degree in russian studies and came to moscow to some on the ground experience obviously for the study around the world and i think it has a lot more perspective for somebody because you can get recruited at the college and not really actually be educated if you can understand somebody else's point of view and going abroad and studying

himself in paris for a five day visit where he gave him a tour of paris including to the palace of versailles he dined him at the ritz and he allowed him to plant his stand just across the street from the palace and he was also an opportunity to. strike very new creative business deals president sarkozy was hoping to sell the fighter jets. at the time but the deal for fell through and colonel gadhafi was able to buy those jets from russia instead but nonetheless the presence of because he was able to sell him this armored vehicle the cd is called four by four and indeed part of the deal is a twenty five million plus package which also includes provides the libyan government which means with means to keep tabs on positions via by controlling the e-mail system of dissidents what you're saying is huge double standard syria the i don't want word of mouth it looks like you know the french government was all too happy back in two thousand and eight to be in bed if you like with free until it didn't suit them anymore fair comment. well absolutely especially that these revelations come in the wake of

fascinated fascinated, i age should not be the first person to pointed out but keynes who was at the versailles peace conference at world war i but could not convince by neglecting economic recovery according disaster but after world war ii, keynes was instrumental to said that day international monetary system. if you think about it, that what we have now both after world war i and world war ii , that is one of the reasons, the economy economy, especially europe was frozen. the conventional wisdom was it would reconstitute itself. and canes took the opposite view that britain would goods and the effort of the allies to make sure the in then for the very best biography station ended in the british embassy and when high akkad written of the people who could not participate in the war effort wrote to books am prophetic books and hayek was about the danger of totalitarianism free-market democratic societies saw all of these republicans were just waiting to raychem the poster child when he turned around to support the cause that they hated most of all which was bretton woods. that was another thing

should even catalans big victory and one of those goals was unknown won by us assume the player versailles barcelona back to winning ways after a couple of jewels and eight mil the result is a record tying school for both teams the catalans beat la grone is with the same margin back in one nine hundred ninety six while assuming the previously lost eight mil to real madrid over half a century ago. now russia's second game of the rugby world cup will be a game states only on tuesday several changes have been made to the school that's had its first day off since arriving in new zealand a full nights ago and artie's who fled to the chance to join some of the players on a fishing trip. it's been a hard slog for russia's players so far at the rugby world cup training session followed by training session coach ride followed by coach ride however the squad was given a rare treat a day off to enjoy some of the wonderful sights of the picturesque region of which lies a top of the file and. a number of the players took up the opportunity to go on a fishing trip and the props a gaping hole of excelled

. >> guest: you know, after world war ii keynes, who had been at the versailles peace conference at the end of world war i and had warned but not been able to convince the allies that by neglecting, you know, economic recovery they were courting political disaster, after world war ii, of course, keynes was strumal in -- instrumental in setting up the international monetary system. because, you know, if you think about it, um, you know, the kind of debt crisis that, you know, that we have now, okay, um, after, both after world war i and world war ii was immense, okay? and that was one of the reasons that the economy, you know, especially if europe was frozen, and, um, and, you know, the conventional wisdom was that it would reconstitute itself, okay? is -- and keynes took the opposite view than bretton woods and the effort of the allies to make sure they didn't make the same mistakes as after world war i. well, you know, isaiah berlin, um, was in, actually the very best biography of marx was stationed in the british embassy in washington during and after the war, and when hayek had writt

he was working on the versailles treaty. he was giving speeches how democracy triumphed and we were in a new age of peace. at home it was chaos. there was chaos all over the world. the soviet union had risen. jewish people were being killed in ukraine, armenians were being killed in turkey, british colonial forces were shooting indian people, absolutely a time of chaos. europe was in flames. in the united states, there was runaway inflation, huge labor strikes. lots of talk by anarchist about overthrowing capitalism and anxiety everywhere. a political cartoon at the time ran which shows the globe in bed, just biting its fingernails, all these terrible things circling. everybody was anxious, and race -- the racial conditions that were already existing in the united states flared up as a result, and there were three things that were occurring in the united states at the time. they were all on the surface good for black people but they led to great racial conflict. number one, black soldiers had fought in world war i and fought

congress, you know, please, peat the young marquee very well because he's very well connected at versailles, and he could be pretty create useful. -- politically useful. the congress, without consulting washington, makes lafayette a major general, this 19-year-old kid who's just arrived, makes him a major general which is the highest rank below commander in chief. but they did it as an honorary title. lafayette then goes and meets george washington. washington writes a priceless letter to the congress saying i don't think that the young marquee understands that the title is is merely hon risk. he's kind of -- honor risk, he's kind of looking for a regiment to command. amazingly enough, lafayette becomes such a resourceful and really fearless general that he becomes one of the major generals in the continental army. and one thick -- thing that i found, you know, the historic study of lafayette being kind of a surrogate son of washington turns out to be true. washington, being a very formal man, did not like to be touched. and we have eyewitness accounts that when lafayette would see washingt

finally, in june of that year, the treaty of versailles was signed.it provided for a league of nations, an international body that would mediate disputes and hopefully prevent war in the future. but when woodrow brought the treaty back to the united states to be ratified by the senate, the senate refused. they were jealous of their constitutional prerogative to declare war and they were afraid the league of nations would oblige them when they didn't want to. they wanted to add amendments or reservations. and woodrow wanted the document ratified as written. so he undertook a speaking tour by train all across the united states to california and back. it was september. it was hot. of course, there was no air conditioning in these metal cars. he was speaking every day, sometimes more than once. as they returned from california and wound up through the rocky mountains, the altitude began to tell on his blood pressure. in pueblo, colorado, he collapsed. they raced back to washington, but it was too late. a few days after they arrived, he suffered a massive

congress, you know, please, peat the young marquee very well because he's very well connected at versailles, and he could be pretty create useful. -- politically useful. the congress, without consulting washington, makes lafayette a major general, this 19-year-old kid who's just arrived, makes him a major general which is the highest rank below commander in chief. but they did it as an honorary title. lafayette then goes and meets george washington. washington writes a priceless letter to the congress saying i don't think that the young marquee understands that the title is is merely hon risk. he's kind of -- honor risk, he's kind of looking for a regiment to command. amazingly enough, lafayette becomes such a resourceful and really fearless general that he becomes one of the major generals in the continental army. and one thick -- thing that i found, you know, the historic study of lafayette being kind of a surrogate son of washington turns out to be true. washington, being a very formal man, did not like to be touched. and we have eyewitness accounts that when lafayette would see washingt