Word: aix
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Aix, where the European allies met in 1818 to divide up the spoils after Napoleon's final defeat, that the Rothschilds elevated themselves from moneyed power to financial grandeur. Secretly manipulating European markets to the point of imminent crash, the Rothschilds managed to discredit rival moneylenders and emerged as bankers for all the huge reparations the victors extracted from defeated France. Thereafter their aura outshone the cunning it derived from...
Handel: Royal Fireworks Music (The Telemann Society Band, conducted by Richard Schulze; Vox). Handel's famous pomp-and-circumstantial salute to the 1748 Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle is here given the closest thing to an authentic performance that most listeners will ever hear-or perhaps want to. By using antique, 18th century winds and brasses, Conductor Schulze gets a gaudy, gamy sound characterized by clashing pitches that will curdle most modern ears...
Interviewed on the radio, the assistant mayor of the Riviera town of Aix-en-Provence confidently brushed aside a question that was very much on the minds of local art lovers. An Aix museum had on display a major Cezanne show of 22 oils, 19 watercolors and 19 drawings. In view of the successful burglary over Bastille Day weekend of 57 canvases from the Municipal Museum in nearby St. Tropez, were the authorities concerned that the Cezannes might be stolen? "Not at all," said the assistant mayor. "In Aix we have armed guards." Thirty hours later, eight of the Cezannes...
...terms of market value, an estimated $2,000,000, the theft was the most sensational since the Louvre's Mona Lisa was stolen just 50 years ago (by an Italian bent on repatriating it). Aix, where Cezanne had lived for much of his life, had theoretically taken every precaution. Four searchlights kept the outside of the museum lighted up all night. At 12 o'clock on the night it happened, the policeman on guard assured Curator Jacqueline Martial-Salme that "everything is all right." and Mme. Martial-Salme herself made an inspection of the museum's three...
...rest of France was not so enthusiastic. He was rejected as a candidate to do a monument to Novelist Emile Zola. Aix-en-Provence commissioned a monument to his beloved Cézanne, then refused to accept the finished statue, a reclining nude. Even when Maillol found a sympathetic patron, Count Harry Kessler, art adviser to the German Kaiser, it turned out badly. World War I broke out, and the French angrily concluded that Maillol was pro-German, dismissed his beautiful nudes as so many plump Fräulein...