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...hundreds of sprawling stores and cubbyhole shops festooned with brightly colored banners proclaiming bargains, customers can buy almost any type of vacuum cleaner or videocassette recorder, refrigerator or radio, humidifier or home computer. Familiar brands such as Sony and Sharp are surrounded by scores of less familiar names: Nakamichi, Denon and Oki. At one store can be found 205 varieties of stereo headphones, 100 different color television sets and 75 kinds of record turntables. While some stores are relatively sedate, others flash lights, blast out rock music and station salesmen on the sidewalk to pitch for patrons like French Quarter...
Brutal Methods. It was Napoleon's Egyptian campaign of 1798-99 that helped launch the 19th century wave of Nile plunder. One of the expedition members most responsible was Vivant Denon, an artist and writer whose illustrated La Description de L'Egypte excited Europe's curiosity about the pharaohs' treasure. Unfortunately, though The Rape of the Nile reproduces dozens of Denon's paintings-and hundreds of other illustrations-only the dust jacket is in color...
Epic Greed. It was there that the tremendous vitality of 19th century French painting would henceforth be nourished. Napoleon's art adviser, Dominique Vivant Denon, a man so feared for his rapacity that he was known throughout Europe as l'emballeur (the packer), set out to bring back to Paris every portable masterpiece he could lay hands on in conquered territory. This exercise in epic greed was an unqualified success. It assured the dominance of French art for another hundred years...
Seldom in history have scholars risked their skins so recklessly in the pursuit of knowledge. The illustrator Vivant Denon marched 3,000 miles through Upper Egypt with General Desaix. lagging dangerously behind the army to sketch the ruins at Abydos and Tentyra. When he and other pioneer Egyptologists ran out of pencils, they sketched with bullets. The descriptions Denon wrote in his notebook still glow with the sense of wonder the French felt as discoverers of an ancient world...
Made by Louis Malle. 27, a wealthy young sugar-beetnik from northern France, the film runs through an old-fashioned romantic tale, updated from an 18th century novelette by Dominique Vivant Denon. about a well-to-do young wife (Jeanne Moreau) in a small provincial town. Her publisher husband (Alain Cuny) spends most of his time putting the paper to bed. So the wife visits friends in Paris, drifts into a well-why-not affair with a cafè-society type (José-Luis de Villalonga). Suspicious, the husband invites the lover home one weekend and plays a sneaky, overcivilized...