Word: napoleon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hundred and sixty-one years after Austerlitz, Napoleon had triumphed again. This time, the hills were the slopes of Franconia, N.H.; the contest was the North American Ski Championships; and the formidable enemy commander was France's Honore Bon net, 47, otherwise known as the Napoleon of the sport. "That can only be," disclaims the coach of the French ski team, "because I am not so tall and comb my hair to the front...
...foundation, it is everything: a thing well drawn is always well enough painted." Ingres followed his own advice. His earliest drawing (of a head) was made in 1789, when he was nine. By the time he was 17, he was a pupil in the Paris studio of Napoleon's court painter, Jacques-Louis David, and was contributing sketches for David's Mme. Récamier...
...amused himself playing fiddle with a friendly foursome that Paganini organized, supported himself and his wife by teaching and doing sketches and portraits of well-to-do visiting French couples. Among his patrons was Napoleon's brother, Lucien. Ingres painted Lucien's burgeoning family with Attic simplicity...
...After Napoleon. Reyre, a career banker who took charge of Paribas in 1948, has so far multiplied its assets tenfold, to $1 billion. A constant innovator, he was the first French banker to bring out convertible bond issues, invest in the Sahara oil boom, and create an open-end investment fund to lure small investors into the French stock market...
...illegitimate son. Then began the long parade: short runs with a vast assortment of lovers, longer runs and growing fame on the stage. She was the queen in Victor Hugo's Ruy Bias, Phèdre in Racine's classic, and she donned trousers as Napoleon's hapless son, the Duc de Reichstadt, in Edmond Rostand's L'Aiglon. Kings mooned over her, and audiences wept torrents over her magnificent death scenes...