Word: henry
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tumbril but in a Black Maria, Henri Philippe Pétain, 89, hero of Verdun, Marshal of France and chief of the late Vichy Government, rode to one of history's great trials-his own, for high treason. With him rode the France of 1940 to be judged by the France...
From France came Frédéric and Irène Joliot-Curie, and Mathematician Henri Laugier. Among England's delegation of 20 were Biologist Julian Huxley, Royal Academician Sir Robert Robinson. England would have sent more but for Winston Churchill's last-minute refusal to grant exit visas to some ten men engaged in war research. From the U.S. came 16, including Harvard's Astronomer Harlow Shapley and General Electric's Chemist Irving Langmuir...
Opening-nighters, strolling through an atmosphere of suave showmanship, got a strong impression that modernism's most resounding salvos are still being fired by French-school painters long dead (Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh) or artists now aging (Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse...
...Painting and Sculpture" (which included photography and drawings) the Museum had prepared no special catalogue and skipped the usual expository wall-texts. Out from Museum vaults - which house twice as much again as the current show - came such familiar modern land marks as French Primitive Henri Rousseau's haunting, tactile Sleeping Gypsy, Pablo Picasso's monumental, screeching, early cubist Young Women of Avignon (painted in 1906-07 and considered the first cubist picture), Van Gogh's swirling Starry Night. Art lovers who looked for samples of what the Museum is buying today, or accepting as gifts, found...
...Reception Center) in Paris' Quartier de l'Europe. But soon small raiding forces, guided by individual "reconnaissance units" of ex-prisoners, peeled off to obtain by "peaceful infiltration" of food and clothing stores the necessities promised (but still unprovided) by the Government. Minister of Prisoners & Deportees Henri Frenay and Food Minister Paul Ramadier had good intentions but lacked supplies...