Word: moreau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...MOREAU DE ST. MÉRY'S AMERICAN JOURNEY, 1793-1798 (394 pp.)-Translated and edited by Kenneth Roberts and Anna M. Roberts-Doubleday...
...excited about it. Written in French, and almost unknown in the U.S., the diary was a sophisticated study, by an observant French emigre, of the callow U.S. of the 1790s. Roberts persuaded his wife to translate it and polished the translation himself. First of Moreau de St. Méry's many works to be put into English, it is not to be compared for literary quality to the contemporary notes of another French traveler, Chateaubriand. But it introduces to U.S. readers a methodical diarist who jotted down thousands of free anthropological notes, the like of which...
Kittery Point was shocked that Eliza Wall, a well-bred, teen-age schoolgirl, should run after a one-eyed French Canadian kid named Claw Moreau, whose family was on town relief. At first, in school, she had been repulsed by his rude speech, the sinister black patch over his missing eye, the squalor of the wharfside shack where his husbandless mother carelessly raised her children, the fixed lines of bitterness which came from learning early that he was a social outcast. Later Eliza's fear became curiosity; and as she grew older, sympathy...
Life Begins at 50. After four long years, Rouault quit his job to study with famed Academician Gustave Moreau. Moreau taught young Rouault all he knew about painting and did his best to break Rouault's habit of moping about in cemeteries after school. When Moreau died, his house was turned into a memorial museum and Rouault, as the favorite pupil, was appointed curator. The sinecure kept Rouault going; his art sold hardly at all until he was past...
...looking, baldish Georges Rouault, who was born in a bomb shelter during the Paris Commune, is now 69, is presumably living and working in occupied France, perhaps in Paris, where he holds a sinecure as director of a museum full of fairy-tale paintings by his teacher, Academician Gustave Moreau. Today a good Rouault costs about $3,500. For the Institute's Rouault show, Director Plaut was unable to import any paintings from Europe, or even to borrow one from the late exhibition at the New York World's Fair. He collected his show from U. S. museums...