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...heard the rumblings early on, and knew the risks of contagion were high - especially given the TV attention," says Nicolas Perruchot, a Blois native who was so taken aback by project rioting in late 2000 that he led a law-and-order campaign for mayor that unseated long-time office holder, Socialist Jack Lang in March 2001. Though Perruchot has also mounted urban renovation programs to improve public housing, and used tax exemptions to lure business and jobs out to the projects, he says he was elected on promises to restore order, by residents of the city center and northern...
GAUGUIN, by Henri Perruchot. More than any other painter in history, Gauguin's life has been documented, dissected and glamorized, and yet this book is still a substantial contribution to the body of work about him. Perruchot's achievement is his understanding of Gauguin's drives and motives, set down without sentimentality or bravura...
Hatred & Vengeance. It is Perruchot's belief that Gauguin's obsessive concern with how he appeared to the world sapped his powers after his retreat to the South Seas (where he spent six years in Tahiti and the last 18 months of his life in the Marquesas). He wasted the last year writing Before and After, a hysterical book of self-declared "hatred and vengeance" directed against his wife and the Danes. It was an ironic last word for the "austere heretic...
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