Word: rigaud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Charles Wilson, escaping jail as Biggs had, fled to Rigaud, Canada, with his wife and three children. But the jailbreak cost $140,000 (for men to free him with cleverly counterfeit keys), and the flight from England about as much. The Wilsons lived in constant terror of attracting attention. "The nagging fear of discovery," said Patricia Wilson, "gave me a permanent headache." Said her husband, recaptured in January 1968: "It wasn't worth...
...elements" bent on sabotage and assassination of the "closest collaborators of Haiti's head of state." For days, Haitian exile leaders in the Dominican Republic remained quiet. Then, Father Jean-Baptiste Georges, a Roman Catholic priest who once served as Haiti's Education Minister, and Pierre L. Rigaud, head of Haiti's old liberal National Democratic Union, called a press conference in the Dominican capital of Santo Domingo. The exile force, they announced, was part of the Haitian Revolutionary Armed Forces, and was delivering arms to a resistance group already in Haiti. Where they were getting weapons...
Breaking the rules naturally became the sly ambition of the more skilled and spirited artists. One such was Hyacinthe Rigaud, portraitist of the Marquis de Dangeau. Rigaud's primary purpose was obviously to flatter, but in so doing he threw all of Le Brun's strictures out the window. Voluptuous draperies billow in the background in the manner of Rubens. The gold and glitter become a feast not for the mind but the eye; color dominates form, and classicism surrenders to baroque self-indulgence. In few works of art was Louis' age of splendor shown up more...