Word: henriot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pictures at the Bignou Gallery were excellent examples of the two styles by which most citizens remember Renoir. La Famille Henriot, painted about 1871, is a gay, sharply drawn canvas of a gentleman and two ladies seated in the dappled shade of a pear tree with two engaging poodles. Judgment of Paris, a swirling study in the pinks, reds, yellows of Paris (in a nightcap) and three rotund nudes, was painted in 1908 when Renoir was already an old man, deeply absorbed in the technique of broken color painting and already wracked with arthritis. The Durand-Ruel pictures were...
...Marguerite Henriot, 19-year-old cousin of Deputy Philippe Henriot, was found murdered in her garden at Lorient Police suspect a passing tramp...
This could mean only one thing STAVISKY. It was Deputy Henriot's accusations in the Chamber following the collapse of the Bayonne municipal pawnshop that started the Stavisky scandal. This young girl must have known things. Or perhaps the murder was a warning to silence Deputy Henriot. Checking over their Stavisky files, reporters made a list of tragedy. Since the Bayonne pawnshop swindle was uncovered there have been: Murder: Judge Albert Prince (TIME March 5, et seq.). Suicide: Swindler Alexandre Stavisky (TIME, Jan. 15), Director Emile Blanchard of the Agricultural Service Station Jean Brunschvik, diamond merchant whose name appeared...
Detectives soon heard a story that Michel Henriot, 23, married less than two years, had insured his wife's life for 800,000 francs. A few hours of questioning and Michel Henriot confessed. The boy's father, cousin of Deputy Philippe Henriot is prosecutor for the department of Lorient. Pale and shaken by the news he resigned, announcing that he would undertake the defense...
...woman and two men that had been seen by several witnesses near the scene of the crime. But in Paris two men swore that they recognized Gilbert Romanigno, former secretary to Stavisky, as the man who had watched the Prince apartment for several days before his death. ¶ Philippe Henriot. fiery young Deputy of the Right, gave the investigating committee details of still another murder of the incredible Stavisky Saga. Kept from the French Press, the details were revealed by foreign correspondents. Before 1926, according to Deputy Henriot, Swindler Stavisky entered into relations with a rival adventurer known as Jean...