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...more to France, however. There is, for instance, the vastly different world of the peasant, as I found out while living and working last summer on a small farm in southeast France. Life was very different there, and I learned a lot from the family I stayed with--Henri and Charlotte Vallet and their 23-year-old son Gilles...
...story of Colette's life is in her books: her childhood in a remote provincial village; the willful, vivacious mother evoked in Sido; her marriage at 20 to Henri Gauthiers-Villars (known as Willy), a shrewd, cosmopolitan literary journalist who divined her talent and sat her down to write the books that made him famous - Willy published them under his own name. Not that their secret went entirely undiscovered; "Willy ont beaucoup de talent, "remarked one critic - Willy are very talented. Colette was 33 before she left her oppressor and began to publish...
...planning and negligent management also play important roles in the decline of Europe's industries. Many companies developed more production capacity than they could have hoped to use in the foreseeable future. Says Henri de Bodinat, a Paris-based industrial expert for the Arthur D. Little consulting firm: "One of the basic rules of capitalism is that industrial sectors reach a limit of growth as they mature and then begin to decline. It happened with railroads; it is now happening with steel, and in ten years the auto industry will have problems." What has turned an industrial adjustment into...
...Nobel, who specified that the recipient be "the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity among nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses." The first winners were Switzerland's Jean Henri Dunant, founder of the International Red Cross and originator of the Gene va Convention, and France's Frederic Passy, a noted pacifist who convened the first International Peace Congress in Paris in 1889. The first female recipient (in 1905) was Austrian Baroness Bertha von Suttner, a longtime confidante of Nobel...
...vagueness, Cezanne, Picasso and the rest." Certainly, for the first 20 years of the century, the current between the avant-garde of the two capitals ran only from Paris to Berlin. As the German art historian Werner Spies remarks in the catalogue to "Paris-Berlin," the visits made by Henri Matisse or Robert Delaunay to Germany were "marked by a condescending paternalism," in contrast to the tentative and supplicatory visits that German artists like August Macke, Wilhelm Lehmbruck or Max Beckmann made to France: the French went to Germany as living demonstrations, the Germans by and large to Paris...