Word: anjou
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were reliquaries designed to look like tiny cathedrals, and a portrait plaque made for the tomb of Geoffrey Plantagenet (Count of Anjou and father of England's Henry II), in which the Count glares at death over a shoulder-high shield. Many of the enamels had been intended for use in the Mass and, like the Mass itself, were laden with symbolic meanings. Among the best pieces on show was a crozier from Cluny representing Aaron's rod. It was crozier, blossoming bough, and serpent, all in one. The pure, bright colors, applied to the gold...
...nostalgic journey started in the center of France's capital with the most beautiful canvas in the show, Honore Daumier's golden glimpse of a washerwoman ascending the steps from the river to the Quai d'Anjou, where the painter lived. A few hundred yards farther down the river, Paris' crowded Pont Neuf, the city's oldest bridge despite its name, was painted by Girtin, Renoir, Pissarro. A farewell was paid to Paris by several artists, among them the Dutchman Johann Barthold Jongkind, with a lovely view of Notre Dame towering over the river barges...
After escaping the grasping tentacles of the Gestapo in Poland, Lednicki became an aid of the Polish government in exile at Anjou in France and was in Paris when Marshal Potain announced the Armistice in June 1940. Securing a transit visa from a kind French official he journeyed to Lisbon, where he received an American visa and came here to assume a post offered him by Harvard...
...Guise, 66, refugee for 66 years, must have known what was up. For bidden by law to set foot within the Third Republic, and normally resident at Manoir d'Anjou, Belgium, the Bourbon pretender to France's vacant throne turned up this week in Morocco...