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Hook-nosed Paul Gauguin, half Peruvian, was born in Paris, spent part of his childhood in the Andes. After brief schooling at a Jesuit seminary in Orléans, he ran away to sea. Chastened by that experience, he returned to Paris, married a Danish woman, did quite well for himself as a stockbroker. On Sundays Broker Gauguin got the smell of counting houses out of his nose by going into the suburbs, painting landscapes. On these trips he met and made friends with Impressionists Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro. In 1887 he suddenly deserted wife, family and the stock...
From Senlis, from Orléans, from Rouen, Chartres and Lyons they came, 8,000 grey-blue soldiers clumping into a Paris that, for the day, was placidly peaceful. Throughout the city headquarters were set up, rolling kitchens were fired and posts mounted. Workmen were out at dawn scattering clean yellow sand in the Place de la Concorde, the Place de la République and along the boulevards near the Chamber of Deputies to keep soldiers' horses from slipping. An emergency Cabinet headed by six onetime Premiers of France had taken charge. There had been bloody storms before...
...Kings is Alfonso XIII of Spain. Though the world is welcome to the knowledge that haemophilia taints his family's blue blood, nobody must suspect that he is financially strapped. When Alfonso broke the engagement of his daughter Beatriz to her cousin Prince Alvaro d'Orléans (TIME, Nov. 16), he publicly announced that it was because she was a carrier of the dreaded disease. Not so proud was eccentric Infanta Eulalia, Prince Alvaro's grandmother. "Ridiculous!" she snapped. "Absurd! King Alfonso is not opposed. . . . We simply have been unable to make plans because none...
Died. Prince Antoine Louis Phillipe Marie ("Naughty Boy")of Bourbon-Orléans, 64, Infante of Spain, Duke of Galliera, uncle of King Alfonso XIII of Spain, husband of the Infanta Eulalia of Spain, grandson of King Louis Philippe of France (last Bourbon to reign). Funloving, extravagant, he was once incarcerated by King Alfonso for giving 1,000-franc notes as tips. He once got out of prison by feigning insanity...
...retrial of onetime Captain Jacques Sadoul, who was sentenced to death in absentio in 1919 for deserting to the Bolsheviki while a member of the French Military Mission, began at Orl...