Word: perpignan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soon as he found his own painting style, he found a market and critical acclaim, for Dufy's art is nothing if not charming. Today he lives in a comfortably bourgeois house surrounded by maple trees in Perpignan. "Every night," he told a recent visitor, "I go to bed tired but contented. I do as much as my strength permits; I think I'm entitled to sleep in peace...
From that point on, his liberal Education was dearly bought in a series of tough schools. He stayed in Spain until the bitter-end exodus to Perpignan, then spent three years grimly reporting the decline & fall of the Italy he had once admired. He was kicked out twice, readmitted once. In India, he put in eleven months of painstaking discovery, came to no startling conclusion about "the problem," but gave Times readers a memorable correspondence course in its complexities...
Getaway. From Munich it was a clean getaway across Germany to Strasbourg, across France slowly to Perpignan. He climbed wearily over the Pyrenees into Spain, eventually reached the British Consulate at Barcelona. Horned Pigeon is an almost day-by-day account of these adventures, in the tradition of Cage-Birds, The Tunnelers of Holzminden and other "escape books" of World War I. Like them it makes exciting reading, until Escaper Millar's lapse into bitter irrelevance at the end. His publishers think that the postscript, and the pained significance of the title (the pigeon, released from a foreign cage...
...Paris radio announced a new face on the streets of Perpignan, France-Diego Martinez-Barrio, last President of the Republican Cortes, lately a refugee in Latin America. Somehow he had come through the Allied blockade...
Died. Maurice Leblanc, 76, "the French Conan Doyle"; in Perpignan, France. Unsuccessful poet and so-so novelist, brother of Maeterlinck's friend Georgette Leblanc (TIME, Nov. 3), in 1906 he created Arsene Lupin, "Robin Hood of the drawing rooms," saw his whodunits translated into 25 languages. Working with lead pencil in an all-glass room, he confessed himself mystified by the inspiration for his plots...