Word: bertholdi
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...renamed eight times-from the Lycée Impérial (Napoleon's era) to the Lycée Descartes (the 1848 revolution). What never changed was the stunning output of famous men. Painters Degas, Delacroix and Géricault went there; so did Sculptor Frederic Auguste Bertholdi, who designed the Statue of Liberty. Louis-le-grand taught Writers Victor Hugo, Charles Peguy, Theophile Gautier, Paul Claudel and, more recently, Jean-Paul Sartre. The poet Baudelaire was aptly pegged ("somewhat bizarre charm") before being expelled for refusing to unhand another boy's note in class (he swallowed...
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