Word: rodez
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Great Sign." Born a blacksmith's son, Soulages grew up with the hunters and fishermen of his native town of Rodez in Southern France, at 14 decided to become a painter. His first loves were the Druid monuments in the region and the massive Romanesque architecture of the church at Conques. Says Soulages: "I detest the Renaissance." During his teens, Soulages delighted in sketching trees against the sky, boned up to pass the academic exams for Paris' Ecole des Beaux-Arts. But once entered, he was convinced by exhibitions of Cezanne and Picasso that academicism...
...outrage perpetrated by "that government in Paris." By last week a glib, handsome young (34) bookseller named Pierre Poujade had organized this native outrage into a political nuisance called the "Union for the Defense of Commerce and Artisanry." Comes the Revenooer. In Rodez 4,000 UDCAers mobbed tax men trying to in spect the books of M. Salvan's pottery shop, and hustled collectors and their police escorts out of town. At Autun 700 Poujade vigilantes frightened inspectors out of Louis Barnay's butcher shop. At Perigueux 500 defended the town's black smith against collectors...