Word: rouen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...literal impressions during the Battle of the Solomons. Notable were a richly colored night scene by Chicagoan Aaron Bohrod of soldiers from Fort Benning, Ga. disporting themselves at an amusement park, and Peter Kurd's painting of B-17s returning at twilight from a raid on Rouen. Other artists shown: Henry Billings, Floyd Davis, Edward Laning, Fletcher Martin, Barse Miller...
...British bombs also fell on Rouen railway yards, the St. Nazaire U-boat base, Wilhelmshaven docks and factories. The Allied air offensive was gathering spring momentum...
France's renowned Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot showed his study of the ruins of the 900-year-old Abbey at Jumiéges, a Seine village a few miles beyond Normandy's ancient capital, Rouen. Celebrated for its churches, duck pâté, sugar candy made of apples, and for the martyrdom of Joan of Arc, Rouen was the scene of paintings by Pissarro, Guillaumin, and Normandy's almost unknown but excellent Albert Lebourg, who died, paralyzed, at Rouen only 15 years ago. Lebourg's three paintings of the Seine near Rouen were infused with...
...Between Rouen and Le Havre the Seine becomes so broad that ferryboats take the place of bridges. Wending its serpentine way through the Norman greenery, the river flows past the village of Villequier, once the home of Victor Hugo, begins to turn salty near Quillebeuf, painted by the seascapist Boudin. The exhibition, with six splendid Boudins including a glimpse of the beach at Trouville, ends with Corot's serene view of seaside Honfleur...
Without so much as a diplomatic hesitation, the U.S. told Vichyfrance last week that a spade is a spade. When flabby, sinister Pierre Laval protested to the U.S. Chargé d'Affairs, S. Pinkney Tuck, that the U.S. bombings of Rouen and Havre were "odious aggression," Mr. Tuck did not even pretend to wait for an answer from Washington. Then & there, he told Laval that the U.S. did not aim to kill Frenchmen but all factories in Occupied France operated by or for Germany "would be bombed at every opportunity in the future...