Word: edouard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case that had already titillated France and embarrassed President Georges Pompidou's Gaullist party. Prostitution is not illegal per se in France, but pimping and bordellos are. Moreover, the taint of scandal had spread from the flic-operators to party members in Lyon. One Gaullist deputy, Edouard Charret, was implicated when a local newspaper printed a picture of him attending the wedding of close friends. The groom, it turned out, was one of the city's better-known pimps and the groom's mother was a notable madam, as was the bride. All three were among those...
...poison, along with tons of other toxic wastes, had come from chemical plants all over Europe, partly be cause Belgium has extremely tolerant pollution laws, partly because the village of Hannêche (pop. 300) has a rather tolerant government. Specifically, Mayor Edouard Elias and his town council had struck an agreement with a newly created Belgian disposal company named Vebeka. Elias got a seat on the company board and Vebeka got a license to dump wastes in the cavernous old factory; the town would get 55? per ton of the lethal garbage. Vebeka Chief Adrianus Van den Bogert...
...Edouard Vuillard was not a simple painter, and his subtle, qualified vision endeared him to some of the most complex minds in France. "Too fastidious for plain statement, he proceeds by insinuation," André Gide wrote of him in 1905. "There is nothing sentimental or highfalutin about the discreet melancholy which pervades his work. Its dress is that of everyday. It is tender and caressing, and if it were not for the mastery that already marks it, I should call it timid. For all his success, I can sense in Vuillard the charm of anxiety and doubt...
Narrow Circle. The cercle Picasso is narrow now, and it has not changed in years-the painter Edouard Pignon, his wife Hélène Parmelin, Sir Roland Penrose (who wrote a biography of him), the British collector and art historian Douglas Cooper and Kahnweiler himself. Casual visitors, even ones who have known Picasso for years, are generally turned back by the intercom at the electronically controlled gates of his villa at Mougins, Notre-Dame...
...French to be slighted when it comes to printmaking. Nicolas Poussin, Edouard Manet, and Ingres point out the diversity of techniques within any nation of artists. Ingres, a noted draftsman, excels even the Dutch in precision of detail. Poussin still tells classic and mythological narratives (The Infant Bacchus Entrusted to the Nymphs), but Manet, one of the fathers of Impressionism concerned with the science of how the eye saw, sketches a woman, flattened, on photographic paper, perhaps borrowed from the great French photographer of the time, Nadar, whose studio housed the first Salon des Impressionistes...