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...well as in life. In payment he gave royal protection, and no one basked more deliciously in the Sun King's rays than Charles Le Brun, "First Painter of the King" and for 20 years the absolute arbiter and benevolent tyrant of le bon gout français. Swept into museum storerooms as succeeding generations downgraded 17th century classicism, Le Brun has been rehabilitated this summer in an almost too complete exhibition at the Château de Versailles...
...corner of Haiti one morning last week, a band of Haitian exiles led by former army officers waded back into their homeland. Still dripping wet, silver-haired General Léon Cantave, 53, quickly organized his meager forces. Then they all marched off to overthrow, or at least harass, François ("Papa Doc") Duvalier, Haiti's brutal dictator...
...modernism: since 1863 painters have been ashamed of reading." The question then arises as to whether Delacroix was essentially a Renaissance artist with whom the Renaissance tradition came to an end, or whether his chief importance lies in his being a precursor of modernism. The answer, says Art Historian Françoise Cachin, is that he was both, for he greatly influenced the generation that made the break between painting and literature final...
...Jack Paar Program (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Guests: Anne Bancroft, Buddy Hackett, Kukla, Fran and Ollie. Color...
France's Françoise Sagan is the most famous example: at 18, she coolly chronicled how a girl grows up by driving her prospective stepmother to suicide (Bonjour Tristesse). In Le Rempart des Beguines, Belgium's Franchise Mallet-Joris, at 20, documented a listless daughter's love affair with her father's mistress. The trend may have reached a climax with The Age of Malaise, a novel about a teenage girl in Rome written by Dacia Maraini, 25. Awarded the $10,000 Formentor publishers' prize for some reason not decipherable in the book itself...