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Double mystery solved: Help ID?

Thanks Medit Planters:
	Mark's plant may have been Echium wildprettii, but my ears pricked with
the discussions of Doryanthes and Beschorneria. On a recent garden tour
of Southern France, I saw this plant in at least 3 gardens. I had not a
clue what it was. My guess was Furcraea, but not with that reddish
infloresence! And the leaves were too grayish! I look and look at my
pictures. What could it be? 
	So thanks, Moira, Sean, David and Susan. Now I feel sure I was looking
at Beschorneria yuccoides and will lable my slides thus. Sometimes,
while trying to solve one gardener's question, you inadvertantly solve
another one's!
	It certainly IS a handsome thing! Too bad it's so big and my garden so
small. I'll never forget the sight of a line of 8 or 9 of these lining
the approach to the Villa Noailles outside of Grasse, created by Charles
Viscount de Noailles, outstanding Mediterranean plantsman of the early
20th century.
	Can anyone tell me anything about him? And thanks again.

Jan Smithen
Upland, CA
Sunset zone 19
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