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Strolling over the Louvre's polished parquet floors, Bazin likes to philosophize on two great portraits. Titian's Francis I (who seems to be examining the jewel of his collection, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa) and Hyacinthe Rigaud's Louis XIV (loftily surveying the great...
Always Ségur keeps before his eye the vision of the Grande Armée as a sort of international brigade marching to liberate (among others) the Poles from an Asiatic despotism. It was indeed not a French national force but a great group of armies-half a million...
Holy Horror. But sinister portents made the true picture clear. The Emperor's horse fell ("A Roman would turn back," someone said); a gigantic thunderstorm destroyed, among other things, 10,000 horses. Worst of all, there were no Russians to defeat. Ségur describes in familiar scenes how...
Says Denver & Rio Grande President Gayle B. Aydelott, who has used the recession to streamline everything from office procedures to main-line maintenance: "We found all sorts of revisions we could make to improve our operation. Now these revisions work so well we wouldn't go back to the...
Scandal in Rio. The scandal reached all the way back to Rio. Politically ambitious Finance Minister José Maria Alkmim announced a special government advance of $6,000 to afflicted towns -and gave that amount to every municipality in his own green state of Minas Gerais. In Rio Grande do...