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Nearly five years after the original charge was made, a court in Fontainebleau, France, found Painter Jean François Millet's grandson Jean Charles guilty of forging canvases, selling them to foreigners as the work of Grandfather Millet, Monet, Sisley, Pissarro (TIME, May 19, 1930; Feb.11). Grandson Millet and his partner in forgery were sentenced to six months in jail, fined 500 francs ($33) each, ordered to pay a total of 120,000 francs to the dealer who brought the charge. Carefully suppressed was evidence as to how many pictures were forged and who paid how much...
Last week in Fontainebleau, where the Kings of France once hunted in the royal forest, and where swarms of U. S. art students now spend their summers trying to learn to paint landscapes, three black-hatted French judges sat down last week to try a notorious old case. On trial were Jean Charles Millet, pudgy grandson of the late great Jean null (The Angelus) Millet, and deaf Paul Cazot, charged with forging and selling at great prices an unknown number of presumptive Millet canvases...
...have sent the five men to France with forged passports to murder the King. Petrus Kalemen was to try in Marseilles, the others in Paris. Following confessions by Raitch and Posposil, French police picked up one Sylvester Mathy after he had hid for days in the Forest of Fontainebleau, living on roots & herbs. They sought three other suspects-a mysterious young girl known as Marie Vjoudroch whose duty was to carry suitcases of small arms to the assassins, and two men. All Europe exploded in a few days of mutual recrimination. Because the murder weapons were German made. French police...
Metropolitan Opera was also assured last week of one more season at least. Shrouded in mystery has been the Metropolitan's second tin-cup campaign. The public was solicited but not informed of the needed guarantee. At an expensive opera ball staged to represent the Court at Fontainebleau in the reign of Louis XV, Soprano Lucrezia Bori came out as Mlle Cleophile de L'Opera, curtsied to such royal impersonators as sleek Artist Boutet de Monvel (King Louis) and Mrs. Vincent Astor (Austria's Maria Theresa), dramatically declared that the Metropolitan was saved...
...exiled Spanish Court circles at Fontainebleau morose courtiers remarked that succession to the Throne now rests with ex-King Alfonso's second son, Don Jaime, born a deaf mute and with difficulty educated up to croaking talk...