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...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...
...when Edouard Manet was 31, he changed the course of art. He did it in the only way possible, by producing a picture that was both revolutionary and great. His reward was laughter...
...stiff resistance. Faure himself compromised, agreed to call the Polyvalents off businesses grossing less than 60 million francs, if the Assembly would postpone the debate on repeal of the tax evasion penalties. "Otherwise," he said, "you can find yourselves another government." Poujade-backing Assemblymen Max Brusset and Edouard Frédéric-Dupont agreed to withdraw their motions...
...EDOUARD PIGNON, 50, a rugged son of a Pas-de-Calais miner, who likes to build up massive forms overflowing with a healthy sensuality. Pignon believes: "It is a question of massing, of warping the surface, and not of hollowing...