Word: communes
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...which, flanked by lovely bushes and protruding feet, wind down to the most respectable part of the cemetery. Here, beside one of the five artificial ponds, one may inspect the mausoleums of prominent Bostonians. The Cabots have an aperture in the roof of their tomb through which they may commune with...
...apples and of blooming, apple-cheeked women, were by France's late great Impressionist Pierre Auguste Renoir. Some of them had been painted during the Franco-Prussian War while German troops laid siege to Paris, some while mobs roamed the Paris streets and fired public buildings during the Commune of 1871. The last of them had been painted while World War I's Big Bertha was dropping shells on the Tuileries...
...that step. In keeping the minority virtuous, he had purged so many revolutionary bigwigs that the little wigs, in self-defense decided to purge him. On the 9th Thermidor (July 27, 1794), his comrades outlawed Robespierre, seized and bound him. The fallen dictator lay on the floor of the Commune, his jaw shattered by a poorly aimed bullet...
...Balfour, Clemenceau, Hindenburg, Wilson, but who wrestled in the flesh with the Emperor Meiji when the latter was a boy, heard Franz Liszt play his own music, talked politics with Prince Bismarck, had audiences with Queen Victoria and Ulysses S. Grant. As a student in Paris he saw the Commune of 1871 and learned liberalism in its laboratory. His public services were those which would have made five men great: Minister to Vienna and Berlin, president of the Privy Council, vice president of the House of Peers, twice Minister of Education, four times Foreign Minister, twice Premier, and chief delegate...
Mild-looking, baldish Georges Rouault, who was born in a bomb shelter during the Paris Commune, is now 69, is presumably living and working in occupied France, perhaps in Paris, where he holds a sinecure as director of a museum full of fairy-tale paintings by his teacher, Academician Gustave Moreau. Today a good Rouault costs about $3,500. For the Institute's Rouault show, Director Plaut was unable to import any paintings from Europe, or even to borrow one from the late exhibition at the New York World's Fair. He collected his show from...