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Died. Pierre Blaise, 20, French peasant woodcutter who starred in Louis Malle's provocative 1974 film Lacombe, Lucien; in a car crash along with two companions; near Montauban, France. Blaise, who had never acted before, bested 1,000 others who had tried out for the role of the squarejawed, peach-cheeked farm boy, Lucien Lacombe. Blaise had then starred in three other films, most recently the unreleased Par des Escaliers Anciens (By Way of the Old Staircase) with Marcello Mastroianni...
Died. Baron Jean-Louis de Portal, 23; of gunshot wounds; near Montauban, France. Together with his mother and sister, Jean-Louis barricaded La Fumade, the Portal family's 30-room mansion, shortly before the death of his father Baron Leonce in 1973, and refused to relinquish it to the farmer who bought it at a debt auction. After Portal shot and wounded two workers sent by the new owner to plow the land, 70 gendarmes assaulted La Fumade, braving fire from the young baron's elephant gun and mortally wounding him. The body of the father, which...
...more impassioned delight than the master whose name was to become synonymous with classicism itself, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres. His love affair with the city is celebrated by "Ingres in Rome," a collection of 150 drawings in Rome (135 from the Musee Ingres in his native town of Montauban and never seen in the U.S. before) that opens next week at the National Gallery in Washington...
Traditionalists were planning stopovers at the Musée Ingres in the Gascon town of Montauban, or the Musée Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in Albi...
Emile-Antoine Bourdelle, who was born 100 years ago in the French town of Montauban, said all his life that his talent came from four sources, all in the family. His father, a furniture maker, gave him his sense of architecture. His uncle, a stonecutter, taught him the secrets of stone. His maternal grandfather, a weaver, gave him his sense of color, and his other grandfather, a shepherd, taught him his love of nature...