Word: edouard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fernandel first appears as Edouard Saint Forget, the father of quintuplets, named in order of birth, Alain, Bernard, Charles, Desire, and Etienne. When they are forty years old and widely scattered, their godfather sets out to reunite them, with an eye toward enhancing the glory, and the commercial success, of a village fair. Their personalities, naturally, all prove to be completely different, and most of them have strange occupations. One is the most famous beautician in France. Another is a lonely hearts journalist, writing under the name Aunt Nicole. The others are a ship captain, a priest, and a window...
SUMMER visitors to Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week threaded their way through one of the finest shows the museum has ever mounted: close to 160 "modern" paintings (by the museum's definition, "modern" harks all the way back to Edouard Manet), all borrowed from private collectors. The exhibition was eye-opening evidence of the success U.S. collectors have had in capturing some of the gems of 19th and 20th century European painting. From his private contributors, Curator Alfred H. Barr Jr. was able to put together a selection that few public collections...
...church again in 1944, a local committee headed by a lawyer, a manufacturer and the curé decided to save on building costs, construct the new church in reinforced concrete. Even in provincial Ronchamp, the name of the best architect for the job was obvious: Swiss-born Charles Edouard Jeanneret. world famous under his professional name, Le Corbusier,* as Europe's leading exponent of reinforced concrete...
...period, great painters turned easily to problems of illustration. Eugène Delacroix, a Romantic from his flowing locks to his patent leather pumps, found a congenial subject in Hamlet. Honoré Daumier brought his genius for social satire to a masterpiece in the same genre: Don Quixote. And Edouard Manet made a lithograph after Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven that would have delighted would-be-Parisian Poe's anxious heart...
...moderate" Radical Socialist Party often seems less a party than an agglomeration of individualists, whose main bonds are anticlericalism, wine and good eating. The Radicals include able Premier Edgar Faure, who fears a Mendes comeback. They include such other ex-Premiers as slothlike Henri Queuille, the father of immobilisme; Edouard Daladier, the appeaser of Munich; 82-year-old Edouard Herriot, who fought German rearmament tooth and claw. And they include two diehard conservatives, Léon Martinaud-Déplat and René Mayer, who engineered Mendès' downfall. The Radical Socialists come close to being the fulcrum...