Word: dreyfuses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...didn't you know," interrupted Presiding Justice Eugene Dreyfus, "that the French President does not direct the policies of the country?" "I always read in the papers." replied Assassin Gorgulov humbly, "that he presided at Cabinet meetings and that he was called the Head of the State so I thought he directed the policies of France...
...Gorgulov," queried Presiding Judge Dreyfus, "have you anything further to say in your defense...
Jean Jaures, Boiling with life and radiating brilliance, Aristide Briand, the son of parents in comfortable circumstances, rushed upon the stage of France as a Socialist lawyer. By his flaming words the proletariat of Nantes was aroused in 1894 to declare, prematurely, a general strike. Through the odious Dreyfus scandal Briand and Clemenceau fought beside the Master Socialist Jean Jaures for the freedom of Captain Dreyfus. Jaures remained irreconcilably radical. Taking the constructive road of compromise, both Clemenceau and Briand had become Premier of France before citizen Jean Jaures was assassinated July 31, 1914. Explicitly predicting and clearly foreseeing...
...plaque, not terra cotta but marble, was discovered and owned originally by a Parisian antiquary and art critic named Eugene Piot. In 1864 Critic Piot sold it to a fellow pamphleteer, Charles Timbal. During the post-war depression of 1870, the entire Timbal collection went to Gustave Dreyfus, a French engineer who made money out of the Suez Canal. In its turn the Dreyfus collection went up for auction in Paris. It was bought in its entirety by Sir Joseph Duveen. The Cleveland Museum, which had already picked several choice morsels at the dispersal of the Guelph Treasure, sent emissaries...
Seldom do we have the opportunity of seeing, as in the present display of the Dreyfus Collection, a selection of great works of art that reflect so completely the age that produced them. No less important than the Renaissance Humanists' discovery of classical antiquity was their discovery of man. In no other period was there such a vital interest in the phenomenon of the human personality, and so it is not surprising to find that the Italian sculptors represented in the Fogg Museum have mirrored the multiple facets of that interest in their works. The arrogance and strength...