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...began a rocket ascent that is still going strong. Last week, with France's President René Coty on hand to officiate, the battlers for impressionism reached new stature in their own land. At last they have a worthy museum of their own, in the remodeled two-story Jeu de Paume* in the Tuileries Gardens facing Paris' Place de la Concorde...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Masterpieces of the Louvre: Part II | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

...than 250 watts) at a distance of more than ten feet. To make faithful reproductions of the paintings, Schaal worked long hours at night in the empty galleries. For Part I of the results, to be followed next week with four pages in color of the Louvre's Jeu de Paume collection of impressionist paintings, see ART, Masterpieces of the Louvre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jun. 30, 1958 | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

...your Jelke story: headline of the week, month and year is "The Solid Gold Cad." If the jeu de mots was good enough for the Age of Reason, i.e., the 18th century, leave us give it a whirl in the 20th, and not a minute too soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 2, 1955 | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

...week, the 17 elderly French women writers who award the Prix Femina found their task too grisly, seemed about ready to leave prize-giving to the menfolk. "Life in today's novel," said one of the judges in an interview, "is twisted to eroticism. For instance, in Le Jeu et I'Enjeu [a recent French literary success] there is a revolting story. Two rats-you heard me -two rats fall upon a bed where two people are preparing to make bought love. I find that most symbolic of current literature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Current Literature | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...also a little stifled there: the Pirandello in him is always edging out the Pinero. In Foolish Notion Barry has held to the drawing room, but has carefully thrown open its windows to the mysterious night air. The result is that child of fashion and fantasy. a jeu d'esprit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan, Mar. 26, 1945 | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

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