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...play has only three fairly short acts, for it was originally interspersed with divertissements of song and dance as part of a festival celebrating the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1668. (This year was a significant one for French culture, since it saw also the birth of Couperin and the publication of the fables of La Fontaine; and it gave us Les Plaideurs of Racine, who, then at odds with Moliere, made fun of him by naming one of the judges in his play George Dandin...
...hours in the hope that its owner would show up. Naturally, no one appeared, so the police decided to search the car. There on the back seat, wrapped in newspapers, were eight rolled-up canvases by Cézanne that had been taken from an exhibition in Aix-en-Provence last August. Valued at $2,000,000, the Cézannes were the loot in the most daring art theft since the Mono, Lisa disappeared from the Louvre 50 years...
...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...
...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...