Word: chambrun
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a two-year fight, Comte Rene A. de Chambrun, great-great-grandson of the Marquis de Lafayette, was admitted to the New York State Bar. Lawyer de Chambrun, Paris-born, was banned from practicing his profession because he had never been naturalized as a U. S. citizen. To prove U. S. citizenship de Chambrun cited before the Court of Appeals a law passed by Maryland's General Assembly in 1784: "The Marquis de Lafayette and his heirs male for ever shall be ... taken to be ... citizens of this State...
With a flourish the Chambrun Galleries invited the New York art world last week to a show proudly titled "Les Trente, a representative showing of the work of 30 modern French painters." The modern French painters bore such disturbingly un-French names as Foujita, Friesz, Kvapil, Carlu, Mutter, Hecht, Van Dongen, but apart from the accident of birth the subtitle was justified. These artists have not only made France their physical and spiritual home, but their training, their technique, their outlook, is as Parisian as a bottle of Pernod. One other thing was noticeable: Les Trente were completely modern...
...pictures which hung last week on the walls of the Chambrun gallery, against the imagined landscape of all Perdriat's paintings there appeared the figures of languid, self-contained and luxurious girls. Most were portraits of Perdriat or her Norwegian friend; a few were groups; one was a scene from some placid and improbable bawdy house, in which five harlots were drinking and playing cards beneath a cloud of afternoon...