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...artist. "They were like children who had a doll that could be taught tricks," she remembers. She began studying drawing and painting in earnest at the age of eleven, took up sculpture at 16, moved to Paris at 19. There she studied under masters: Sculptor Emile Antoine Bourdelle, Painter Fernand Léger, Engraver Stanley Hayter...
...Very Odd Specimen. Even in his person, he tried to be true to the "new spirit." One day in Paris, a friend of the painter Fernand Leger said to Leger: "Just wait. You're about to see a very odd specimen. He goes bicycling in a derby hat." Leger waited. "A few minutes later," he recalled, "I saw coming along, very stiff, completely in silhouette, an extraordinary mobile object under the derby hat with spectacles and a dark suit. He advanced quietly, scrupulously obeying the laws of perspective. The picturesque personage was none other than the architect Le Corbusier...
...group ringed the ornate Moorish residence of France's delegate general in Algeria, Jean Morin, and unceremoniously took him prisoner in his bed. Also seized was Transport Minister Robert Buron, who happened to be visiting Algiers. Other paratroopers took prisoner the top military man in Algeria. General Fernand Gambiez, and occupied all the city's key buildings-post office, police and government offices. Shortly before 9 a.m., Radio Algiers announced the news to the stunned city: three paratroop regiments had taken over "all power" of government in defiance of Charles de Gaulle. Leaders of the coup were identified...
...world. His father was a prosperous Le Havre wine merchant, and Dubuffet barely escaped being the same. He tried painting for a while, then gave it up in disgust because he decided he was only imitating his Paris friends, Suzanne Valadon, Raoul Dufy and Fernand Léger. He went back to selling wine, got "a wife, furniture, a maid, a brother-in-law, a car, kids." Then one day before World War II he started to paint again. "My wife didn't like it ... She disappeared. Bon voyage! The brother-in-law disappeared...
...Mayor Fernand Lefort called in the Association of Flea Market Merchants, showed off designs for a handsome new Flea Market of 1,000 booths-even, for old times' sake, arranged in a labyrinth pattern of circling passageways, yet leaving room for five new housing blocks...