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...there is far more than humor in this collection. The Fishermen of the Seine evokes, in a style as spare as Maupassant or Simenon, the ponts and iles of Paris at dawn, when rough-clad men hunker in the fog to hook Gallic mysteries like goujon, breme and chevaine. Two hunting pieces extracted from Humphrey's poignant 1977 memoir Farther Off from Heaven call back the hot dust and snaky swamps of his Depression-era boyhood in east Texas, along with the ghost of his hard-drinking, bar-fighting, trick-shot artist of a father...
Died. Charles Goujon, 45, topnotch French test pilot ("I'm thorough, obstinate, almost stubborn"), completing three years of tests on France's fastest (1,400 m.p.h. in level flight) rocket-and jet-powered interceptor plane, the Trident, when the Trident II mysteriously disintegrated in the air; over Melun-Villaroche, about 35 miles southeast of Paris...
...Henry II) 20 years her junior, and held his love until he died. In a day when woman's place was in the home, she ruled France well and wisely for more than a decade (1547-59). A patroness of the arts, she was the muse of Jean Goujon, whose finest statue is a portrait of Diane as Diana, and of Ronsard, who wrote for her some of his best-loved lines...
...Hyacinthe Goujon, age six, who had ambitions to be a movie star, carried a tiny powder box, a small stick of rouge and chose her own perfume, "had quite astonishing ideas about her clothes and those of other 'women.' " She told Author Paul "without a flicker of her violet-blue eyes or a vulgar inflection of her well-trained voice, that she remained with Madame Absalom on Tuesday and Friday afternoons because her mother entertained her 'lover' on those days." ^ M. Corre, the conservative who ran the Epicerie Danton, scrimped so that his son could learn...
...form a more complete whole than in other countries, due perhaps to the influence of Geoffrey Tory. A large number of books shown are French. Among the most interesting may be mentioned "Entree ... Henri II ... en la ville ... de Paris", Paris, 1549, containing a fine equestrian portrait by Jean Goujon; Aesop, "Les Fables", Paris, 1542, a unique first edition; Homer, Les Dix Premiers Livres de I'lliade", Paris, 1545; Ovid, La Metamorphose, Lyons, 1557 with woodcuts by "Le Petit Bernard"; and Geoffrey Tory's Aediloquium, Paris, 1530, illustrated by the author. Holbein's Old Testament and Dance of Death, although...
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