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...first-ever international tour of the museums’ Grenville L. Winthrop Collection—part of the largest university art museum holdings in the country—kicked off in Lyon, France last weekend. The show, “A Private Passion,” includes more than 200 paintings, drawings and sculptures by many notable artists, including Claude Monet, Edgar Degas and Vincent van Gogh...
...both men gave of having organized the campaign and planted homemade bombs in Paris subway trains. Though the pair have recently recanted those avowals as coerced, prosecutors also have Bensaïd's fingerprints on bombing material at one site and on an unexploded bomb discovered on the Paris-Lyon TGV train line. Electronic dating of a Métro ticket found in Belkacem's home also place him exiting a subway station just minutes ahead of a blast. Police phone taps recorded him and Bensaïd planning an additional attack in Lille, which precipitated their arrest. French investigators...
...succeed since the ruling is in line with the new law. Not only does Papon's release raise questions about France's willingness to confront accusations of recurrent anti-Semitism, it also suggests inequity in the justice system. Klaus Barbie, Germany's wartime head of the SS in Lyon, and pro-Nazi French militia leader Paul Touvier were both allowed to die of cancer in prison during the 1990s. But neither of those men had friends in the French power élite, nor did they have the March 2002 law that Papon's stable of lawyers could exploit. Emboldened...
...following the lock-step of all-inclusive tours. Yet even in Twain's era many observers were aghast that tourism was making places like Nice increasingly dependent on revenues from visitors. Then it was the influx of "ordinary people" stimulated by the coming of the railroad from Paris through Lyon and Marseilles. About a century later, it was decadence and crime, a subject that sufficiently aroused English novelist and long-time Nice resident Graham Greene to write his famous polemic J'Accuse: The Dark Side of Nice. Kanigel has compiled a hybrid, neither a lightweight beach book...
...Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings From the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University” will travel to the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, France, from March 15 to May 26; the National Gallery of Art in London from June 25 to Sept. 14, 2003; the Metropolitan Museum of Art from Oct. 20, 2003, to Jan. 11, 2004; and the National Gallery of Art in Washington from...