Word: edouard
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...great many more people will see them than ever got into Dale's Manhattan mansion.* The pictures, which included the famed Old Musician, one of the two most ambitious and highly valued (at least $500,000) items ever to come from the brush of the late great Edouard Manet, perked up the National Gallery's feeble Prench section like a shot of vitamins. Besides the Manet, rated as fine as the Dejeuner sur I'Herbe in the Louvre, Collector Dale's loan contained an assort ment of top-flight Renoirs, Degas and Corots, two Courbets...
...grey morning last week, as the rain beat down on southern France, three old men set out on a journey. For over a year Edouard Daladier, Léon Blum and Maurice Gustave Gamelin had been held at Riom, charged with the guilt of France's destruction. Now, with their trial fixed for Jan. 15, they were sped by automobile south to Portalet Fortress. There, two days later, they were joined by two other statesmen of the French Republic: Georges Mandel and Paul Reynaud...
...Baron Edouard de Rothschild's racing stables, seized by the Government when he fled to the U.S., were auctioned in Paris, brought...
...technically at war, they were about to exchange envoys, the Nazis sending consuls not only to Paris, but to Lyon and Marseille as well. And Marshal Henri Philippe Petain finally did something about the men whom Vichy blames for France's defeat-General Maurice Gustave Gamelin, onetime Premiers Edouard Daladier, Leon Blum and Paul Reynaud, former Minister of the Interior Georges Mandel. The Marshal ordered them moved from various jails to a new jail in the Pyrenees fort of Col du Pourtalet, there to await the trial they have already awaited for twelve months...
...fish. Hedy Lamarr invented a remote-control device the Government termed secret and "promising." The Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service set Private Mary Churchill to scrubbing steps after Father Winston asked "no favors." Paris papers predicted that General Maurice Gustave Gamelin, ex-Premiers Léon Blum, Edouard Daladier, Paul Reynaud would be moved to a fortress prison for trial at war's end. Marshal Pétain harvested his grapes at Villeneuve-Loubet on the Côte d'Azur. A Fight For Freedom audience of 17,000 cheered when Wendell L Willkie and William...