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Sancton's great-grandfather emigrated in the 1860s from Bordeaux to New Orleans, where Sancton grew up. Since first visiting France in 1971, Sancton has spent more than half his adult life in Paris--in the '70s as a Rhodes scholar writing his doctoral thesis ("America in the Eyes of the French Left, 1848-1871"), in the '80s as a TIME correspondent and since January 1993 as the head of our bureau. Helping deepen his Gallic roots are his French wife Sylvaine and their two binational children, Sandy, 26, and Julian...
Alcott was such an author. In the 1860s, she published dozens of tales under the pseudonym of M. Barnard...
...children's classic can be described as a book so inviting that a young reader wants to escape into the world it creates. By that definition, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, an account of four sisters living in Concord, Massachusetts, during the 1860s, is immortal. The author drew on her own impoverished childhood as a daughter of Bronson Alcott, a feckless member of the Concord enlightenment. Generations of girls have yearned to join the March household, and they remember the story's high points better than crises of their own lives...
There may be a good reason for this, for Marx believed in phrenology Wilhelm Liebknecht, one of the founders of the German Socialist Party, writes in his Memoirs that when he came to London in the 1860s to join Marx's faction, before he was admitted, Pfander--the official party phrenologist--danced, his fingers around his skull. This was printed in the Kerr edition of Liebknecht's memoirs, but when these were reprinted by Moscow and the International Publishing (the official Communist publishing house in the United States), those passages were omitted without any dots or ellipses to indicate that...
...major works -- nearly 30 Manets; more than that number of Monets; and work by a whole gamut of artists from Renoir to Cezanne and Whistler, from Frederic Bazille to academicians like Jean-Leon Gerome and even William Bouguereau. It focuses on the early years of the movement, the 1860s, before "New Painting" became controversial with the first Impressionist exhibition of 1874. It asks, What formed Manet, Monet, Degas, Renoir and the rest; what ambitions coalesced between them; what other artists did they respond...