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According to Painter Charles Le Brun, all art could be reduced to a series of formulas. It should appeal to the mind rather than the eye, must force nature to comply with the rigid rules of perspective, proportion and reason. Since form was more permanent than color, it was also more important. Le Brun even wrote a manual on how to portray each emotion...
Breaking the rules naturally became the sly ambition of the more skilled and spirited artists. One such was Hyacinthe Rigaud, portraitist of the Marquis de Dangeau. Rigaud's primary purpose was obviously to flatter, but in so doing he threw all of Le Brun's strictures out the window. Voluptuous draperies billow in the background in the manner of Rubens. The gold and glitter become a feast not for the mind but the eye; color dominates form, and classicism surrenders to baroque self-indulgence. In few works of art was Louis' age of splendor shown up more...
Pocket Money. In Vancouver. B.C.. after being nabbed with 883 coins in their pockets. Gilbert Meunie and Yvon Le-Brun failed to convince Magistrate Oscar Orr that they were hunting for a rare 1921 nickel, were convicted of parking-meter robbery...
...Supreme Court of France-when a black-robed justice read a decree upholding the decision of a lower court: Robert and Gerald Finaly, whose Jewish parents had died in a Nazi concentration camp, should be raised by their Jewish kinsmen rather than by their Roman Catholic foster mother, Antoinette Brun. For weeks before the court decision, France...
Police v. Basques. Antoinette Brun refused to give the boys up. She was put in jail on Jan. 29 for kidnaping, but Rober and Gerald were not to be found in Grenoble. They had disappeared, shepherded by some of their "maman's" Catholic friends, who thought it scandalous that children, baptized in the church, should be raised as Jews in Israel...