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While the two Presidents discussed affairs of state, Jackie raced through her favorite city in the firm tow of the grandmotherly Mme. de Gaulle. Trailing behind her black bubbletop Citroen were her mother-in-law, Rose Kennedy, her sister, Princess Radziwill, Sister-in-Law Eunice Shriver, and a bevy of...
It is one of the ironies of art history that no group had to battle harder for recognition than the French impressionists, who eventually came to dominate the art of the Western world. Bucking the ornate, sentimental tastes of most Frenchmen in the second half of the 19th century, they...
Closed since 1954, when the building's inadequate structure was threatening damage to the impressionist masterpieces already hanging there, the Jeu de Paume was reopened as a completely redone museum, with the most modern lighting and humidity control, and hung with no less than 288 of the Louvre'...
To his triumph in bringing the ever-increasing harvest of impressionists together, Curator Bazin, with French pride, adds this footnote: "Those who deny that the French possess a sense of civic responsibility are advised to visit the Jeu de Paume. The impressionist gallery at the Louvre is not the accomplishment...
*The Jeu de Paume (literally, game of palm) was a royal indoor tennis court built by Napoleon III in 1862. The game, known as jeu de courte paume, derived from a sort of handball to which racquets were added, was for centuries the rage in France. In the 1890s the...