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...year's. Le Senat- ¶Welcomed back into its ranks Senator Victor Henry Bérenger who resigned last week as French Ambassador to the U. S. M. Bérenger whose "businesslike" personality impressed Secretary Mellon most favorably and went a long way toward making possible the Fran-co-U. S. debt agreement which they mutually negotiated (TIME, May 10) was in high dudgeon on the occasion of his resignation last week because Premier Poincaré appears to have abandoned all immediate intention of trying to get the Mellon-Bérenger agreement ratified by France...
...quiet dress, hearing voices fade, footsteps pass; Millet's "Angelus," the bent peasants in their luminous field; the perfumed floridity of Nicholas Poussin's "Orpheus and Eurydice," Jacques Louis David's capable "Portrait of Pius VII"; "Renaul and Armide" one of the classic posturings of François Boucher, the courtier who painted ceilings with the grace of miniatures; and "1814" by Ernest Meissonier, filled with the pomp of banners, stations, mustaches, and death...
...Fonck and comrades in the ill-fated Sikorsky plane with which they had hoped to win my standing offer of $25,000 for a non-stop flight between New York and Paris (TIME, Aug. 23 et seq.), I revealed that one-legged Pilot Paul Tarascon* and one-eyed Pilot François Coli, Frenchmen, were all but ready to try for my money in a flight from Paris to New York, next fortnight. These two tried to fly over last year but lost their plane in a tree collision during final tests...
...talent as a poet is not open to question among Frenchmen, who look to L'Academic française as their arbiter of culture. Several times that august body has appointed him its laureate. The thing is on record as a matter of fact-which impresses no people more than the French...
...Nearly all the women whom Goethe loved and did not marry were later in life more or less happily married themselves. And none of the women when Goethe loved but did not marry ever spoke ill of him, so far as it is known, with the sole exception of Fran von Stein, who perhaps had least reason for doing...