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...always had it in my soul," Rene Fribourg once said, "to love French 18th century things. It is true that my bedroom is Napoleon I, and my wife's bedroom is Charles X, but most of the rest is 18th century. I love Louis XV and Louis XVI." Until his death at 83 in January, only guests to the white stone Fribourg mansion off upper Fifth Avenue ever saw his big collection of furniture, art objects and painting; now it is to be knocked down at auction. Peter Wilson, suave chairman of the world's biggest auction house...
...suspects was the alleged ringleader, Mme. Paule Rousselot de Liffiac, 55, a pipe-smoking, low-salaried English translator at the school, the mother of six children, who was picked up at her 15-room 18th century château in a town south of Lyon. The Ecole Militaire, where Napoleon learned to soldier, is the top academy for the French military, and a hotbed of anti-Gaullism among the veterans of Algeria who think he let them down...
Rounding up a collection of classic Spanish painting has never been an easy task-outside Spain. In Europe, Spanish work was almost unknown until after Napoleon's looting and the later purchases of Louis Philippe gave France and Austria a chance to assemble collections. Madrid's Prado gallery, of course, still has the most. In the U.S., where collectors equipped with bulging pocketbooks and ranging tastes assiduously bought up Spanish masterpieces in recent generations, there are a number of good private and public collections to draw from. It is from these that the show "El Greco to Goya...
...indeed is the plight if the American Gaullist. You and I and Secretary McNamara alike have all been deprived of our New York Times; and that is horrible enough. But for anyone who does not believe that Charles de Gaulle is some diabolical combination of Louis Napoleon and Bertrand Russell, breakfast reading of late has been an experience verging on the traumatic...
...start 100 years ago through an ingenious stroke of applied science. Its founder, a German chemist named Eugen Lucius, perfected the first instant dye, which won wide popularity after a French silk dyer used it to dye green the silk to be used in an evening dress for Emperor Napoleon Ill's wife, Empress Eugenie. Soon researchers, using Hoechst dyes, learned that they could stain living and dead tissue to study the origin and spread of diseases. Famed Microbiologist Robert Koch used Hoechst dyes to discover the organisms causing anthrax and tuberculosis. Over the years, Hoechst scientists developed Novocain...