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...doctor, for premeditated poisoning, which can mean life in prison. As Boulogne-sur-Mer prosecutor Gérald Lesigne began detailing the allegations this month, France debated the fine line between letting someone die and killing him. This time, the man in the middle is Humbert's doctor, Frédéric Chaussoy. A majority of French people support legalizing euthanasia in some cases, according to polls. Almost everyone wants to wipe away the legal ambiguity that haunts doctors now. But no one is quite sure how. The day he died, Humbert predicted in his book, would be like...
...FRÉDÉRIC CHAUSSOY...
...Divine Comedy, and St. Augustine in his cell, a fresco for Florence's Ognissanti church later transposed to canvas. It will go to Florence's Palazzo Strozzi (March 10-July 11) after the Paris run. The scion of a wealthy Montpellier family, the ebullient young Impressionist painter Frédéric Bazille shared his ateliers and his allowance with Monet and Renoir and painted with Sisley (while Renoir painted him in the act). His 1870 The Condamine Street Atelier portrayed his friends Manet, Monet, Maitre, Renoir and writer Emile Zola while his own tall, lanky figure was painted...
...help secure it. Meanwhile, businessmen and aid workers are reluctant to bring in much-needed food and medicine, fearing it will be confiscated if the conflict erupts again. "I can't write to my boss and say, 'Send me more expatriates and 200 tons of supplies,'" says Frédéric Bardou, country director of Action Against Hunger. "We don't have enough stability." As the Nigerian peacekeepers made a tour of the capital, hundreds of Liberians chanted: "No more looting. We want peace." They may have to wait a bit longer before they get their wish...
...last summer. Described by a prosecutor as "an individual of fragile mental state" who wasn't fully aware of the consequences of his actions, the municipal employee reportedly acted out of spite because his application to join a local volunteer fire brigade was rejected last year. The mayor of Fréjus launched a separate inquiry after three bottles with wicks in them were found near a burned-out campground. At one point, as many as 30 fires started within a single half-hour. Some authorities called it terrorism, but others said the fires had been set just...