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...architecture, the European need only visit the Cloisters on the Hudson to see what has happened. There, in one "arbitrary hodgepodge," are the Saint-Guilhem cloister, the chapter house of Notre-Dame-de-Pontaut, woodwork from the House of Francis I in Abbeville, the cloisters of Cuxa and Bonnefont. Concludes Gaya-Nuňo: "The whole of Europe is nothing but a Flea Market that waits, full of anxiety and emotion, for the arrival of the nouveáu riche...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Flee Market | 9/19/1960 | See Source »

...brown pullover sweater emerges from the concierge's cottage of the Chateau Valrac in the sleepy little Franco-Spanish border town of Prades. Usually, with his huge German shepherd dog Follet trotting alongside, he walks down the road toward the beautiful medieval Abbey of St. Michel de Cuxa, or toward the Canigou, the mountain which lies near the Catalonian border. He seldom heads toward the center of the town; the townspeople of Prades are inordinately proud of Pablo Casals, the great musician who lives among them in self-exile, and he would have to shake the hand of everyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Exile of Prades | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

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