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What if they gave an auction and nobody bid? When Vincent Van Gogh's Jardin a Auvers went on the block at Paris' posh George V Hotel, auctioneer Jacques Tajan brought the gavel down on a supposed bid of $6.4 million. After the sale, however, Tajan admitted he had merely...
In France, Roman Catholics are closely following the online activities of a controversial bishop named Jacques Gaillot. Exiled by the Pope to an abandoned diocese in 1995 because of his liberal social views, Gaillot has established what he calls a virtual diocese to replace it. He marvels at the freedom...
"It was great," she says twice, her voice trailing off. "It was great."CrimsonMary L. NaberMURIEL JEAN-JACQUES '99 confers with founder REBECCA D. ONIE '98-'97
DIED. MARCEL CARNE, 90, French film director; in the Paris suburb of Clamart. Carne's Les Enfants du Paradis (1945), made in collaboration with poet and screenwriter Jacques Prevert, is widely considered by critics to be one of the best films of all times.
On a more political note, French president Jacques Chirac was awarded the peace prize for "commemorating the 50th anniversary of Hiroshima with atomic bomb tests in the Pacific." Chirac, who was not present at the event, was congratulated by Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel in an audio message played at the...