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...they knew, as his mother wrote in a letter that has survived, that "we can no longer exist legally ..." Before the parents were seized and shipped off to their deaths, they managed to have their son accepted in a Roman Catholic boarding school at Montluçon as "Paul-Henri Ferland," a Catholic orphan...
Twice in 1906 Henri Matisse painted the same brooding young sailor in the same pose in the Mediterranean town of Collioure. Critics have always preferred Le Jeune Marin II for its flowing strokes and color. Perhaps that was because they saw little of Jeune Marin I; Matisse sold it to Gertrude Stein's brother Michael, who twelve years later sold it to a Norwegian collector. Recently Marin I surfaced at exhibitions in New York and Zurich, a prelude to auction last week at Christie's in London. There, in spirited bidding on the floor and by telephone...
After John Paul's trip, French Religion Analyst Henri Fesquet sneered: "The Pope is nothing by himself. He has empty hands." Perhaps so, but that smacks of the hoary remark once made by Stalin about divisions. The view may be too harsh, too gloomy. The new Tory majority leader of Britain's House
Sure enough, when Murty tried to move his stock out of France, the shipment was blocked by Jean Romanet, head of the Jockey Club, and by Henri Blanc, of the state-owned National Stud. For reasons still murky, they refused to sign export licenses, claiming that they were acting under orders from the Agriculture Ministry. But ministry officials denied any knowledge of the affair, says Murty. At about this time the National Stud received a donation from the Aga Khan of three stallions, worth at least $90,000. Says Murty: "I believe the Aga Khan gave the stallions...
...DISCUSSION of catastrophe theory's history, the writers trace the influence of 19th-century mathematician Henri Poincare and 20th-century biologist D'Arcy Thompson on the thought of Rene Thom, a leading differential topologist at the French Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies. Thom's vision of an underlying geometric order to natural processes led to his publication of Structural Stability and Morphogenesis in 1972, eight years after he had formulated the models which were to become the foundation of catastrophe theory...