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...monument to the U. S. Volunteers killed in the French Army during the War is the work of Jean Boucher. It represents a young soldier of the French Legion, rifle in hand, waving his comrades to charge. On one side of the pedestal is a poilu shaking hands with a doughboy, who is represented as Alan Seeger, the young American poet killed in the French ranks. On the other side of the pedestal is one of Seeger's poems...
...Joshua Reynolds' Portrait of Mrs. Mathew; Romney's Mrs. Chitty Marshall; Velasquez' Two Princesses; Fra Angelico's Day of Judgment; Piero di Cosimo's panels of the life of Jason; Rembrandt's Portrait of an Old Man, which brought $55,062; four sentimental Boucher panels for $86,184. There were also in the collection paintings by Constable, Hogarth, Raeburn, Turner, Murillo, Canaletto, Ghirlandajo, Andrea del Sarto, Veronese, Rubens, Jordaens, Teniers, Van Dyck, de Hooch, Ruysdael, Ter Borch, Van der Cappelle, Mme. Le Brun...
...statue, by Jean Boucher, represents an American in French uniform calling his countrymen to the aid of France. And since it has not yet been unveiled, American travelers in Paris on the Fourth of July will be able to witness the ceremony...
...Etampes, France, an airplane directed by wireless from the ground flew easily, maneuvered freely and rose and landed several times. A Sperry stabilizer with four gyroscopes maintains equilibrium automatically and a special device cuts off ignition on landing. Captain Boucher, the inventor, predicts that such machines may well be used for bombing purposes in times...
Judging by communications to the sculptor Jean Boucher's memorial statue in Paris, showing a gloved American soldier shaking hands with a Poilu, deeply affected many who saw it. But what moved them was not the beauty of the statue, but the soldiers' gloves. "Both soldiers, being gentlemen, would have removed their gloves," said the objectors. M. Boucher reluctantly carved the gloves off the statue...