Word: freres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ingenuous 1870's his name meant much in the art world. Wounded in the Civil War, he went to Paris to recuperate and study art, spending most of his life thereafter in Europe. A pupil of the painstaking Jean Leon Gerome, Alexandre Cabanel and Edouard Frere, he became one of the most persistent of salon exhibitors. Between 1868 and 1895 Henry Bacon's name appears 25 times on the Beaux Arts lists, his canvases always being hung "on the line." Two of his pictures which became best sellers as steel engravings: The Boston Boys & General Gage, Little Bopeep...
...poor young man named Alfred Bessette sought entry into the Congregation of the Holy Cross in Montreal. He proved too unlettered to become a priest or teacher. They let him be a novice, called him Frere Andre, made him porter of their college on the Côte des Neiges. Soon the local fathers were perturbed to find that their porter was attracting an increasing throng of visitors. Brother Andre, people believed, was able to obtain the intercession of St. Joseph in healing the ills of the pious...