Word: moulins
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...this master, who has painted through many styles. Thannhauser's Picassos stretch from a 1960 oil of symbolic doves back to a small work of 1898, when the artist still signed his name P. Ruiz Picasso. Next is Picasso's first oil done in Paris, Le Moulin de la Galette, a muted 1900 Lautrecian cabaretscape, gaslit with top hats as sleek and glassy as carafes of absinthe. Included, almost as a talisman, is the 1905 painting of Two Harlequins, one of the few survivors of the Thannhauser Paris collection...
...doubts. In fact, he labeled the first electric coffee mills off the assembly line "Moulin X" - literally, Mill X - to protect the reputation of his established firm, Moulin-Légumes, in case the venture did not work out. It did, and Mantelet's firm has since become France's largest manufacturer of electrical appliances, proudly bearing the name Moulinex. Last week at Paris' 34th International des Arts Menagers, where 1,800 appliance makers from 26 countries showed their wares, Moulinex took another step forward by announcing plans to add ten new household appliances to its present...
...legendary "Max," Moulin became head of the Resistance movement. He was small, dark and inconspicuous, usually wore a navy blue trenchcoat and a grey scarf to hide the scars that remained on his neck from his suicide attempt. Moving about the country with speed and stealth, Moulin managed to weld together mutually mistrustful Frenchmen of the left, right and center. He created a clandestine press, arranged the sabotage and harassment of Nazi detachments, and drew up plans for massive help for the eventual Allied landings. While the Nazis searched frantically for him, Moulin, nicknamed "the King of Shadows," held...
Sense of History. Before last week's reburial at the Pantheon, Moulin's remains had rested for two decades at Pere-Lachaise cemetery, and there were some skeptics who wondered at Charles De Gaulle's long delay in recognizing Moulin's great wartime contribution. Some saw the ceremony as designed to inaugurate De Gaulle's presidential campaign. But there come moments in France when political passion and factional rivalry are briefly overshadowed by a sense of history and literature. One such occurred when Andre Malraux, De Gaulle's Minister of Cultural Affairs and leading...
With an emotionalism that sounds slightly too rich in any language but French, Malraux noted that when Moulin was seized by the Gestapo, "the destiny of the Resistance depended upon the courage of this man. And here today in France triumphant we have the victory of this silence so terribly paid for." Dramatically addressing the dead Moulin, Malraux cried: "You, leader of the martyred Resistance fighters who died in cellars, look with your empty eye sockets at all the women in black who now keep watch over our companions!" Malraux closed with an appeal to the 16 million Frenchmen...