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...fairy story, Author Francis' tale is clothed in realism, but wanders into grotesque fancies that lie far from weekday life. Narrator of the story is Catherine, who tells her son this history of the childhood she spent in a Flanders farmhouse, in the years following the Franco-Prussian...
...went out to the Invaliden Cemetery, laid wreaths on the graves of two significant heroes of Prussia's wars against Napoleon Bonaparte: General Gerhard von Scharnhorst, who introduced universal compulsory military training into Prussia, and General Hermann von Boyen, who beat French restrictions on the size of the Prussian Army by training successive batches of reserves for short periods...
...living in foreign countries are still liable for conscription. Pure-blooded Jews, criminals and the morally unfit are excluded from active service. The only ones exempted from military service are candidates for the Catholic priesthood who have already received at least a subdeacon's ordination. Unlike the old Prussian Army, officered exclusively by aristocrats, every conscript will have an equal chance at an officer's commission. Thus a new order of self-made soldiers will be introduced into the old Army setup of Kaiser Wilhelm...
...understand a woman, he must discover the woman in himself, and if a woman would understand a man, she must dig in her own consciousness to discover her own masculine traits." Dr. Hirschfeld's Institute, founded in 1919, was later taken over and renamed for him by the Prussian Government. Over its door he put the motto of Hitler's hero, Frederick the Great, "I intend in my State that every man amuse himself in his own way." But the Nazis, many of whom had been treated for abnormalities by Dr. Hirschfeld, called his work "un-German," seized...
...18th Century French pictures on fans and window shades for a Paris factory. Before he was 25 he knew most of the men who were to be his lifelong friends and associates in Impressionism: Monet, Cézanne, Sisley, Pissarro, Diaz. He enlisted in the cavalry for the Franco-Prussian war, but nothing happened to him. Very little happened to him all his life. He was a painter's painter, passionately interested in the technique of his craft, with a lusty sensuousness that has caused Collector Barnes to compare him, at great length, to Rubens, Titian, and the 16th...