Word: rousseau
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week in the Hotel Druot, Paris, in an hour and a half, for 1,648,750 francs (about $55,000). A Cezanne went for 280,000, a nude by Matisse for 100,000; the highest price of the sale 520,000 francs was paid for a picture by Henry Rousseau, "The Sleeping Bohemian," which the artist sold 15 years ago for 400 francs. Even now some critics laugh at it. "What Idiot," asked L'Oetivre, "Will Pay the Big Price for the 'Sleeping Bohemian'?" To pass sentence on the mental soundness of M. Bigne, the buyer...
...broadest sense Marie of Roumania is a romancist. She is off center (How many miles is it to Bucharest?), she is fickle, and she is expressive of her own views, virtues, and vertigoes. Jean J. Rousseau would adore her as he left for the zoo; Gauter would sing of her as he polished his waistcoat buttons; Plato would not believe she existed; and Aristotle would give up his chair of comparative literature. Horace might add that in the consulship of Marcellus women did'nt make quite such a disturbance. Yes, this lady from the Balkans is romantic to the core...
Marcus Antoninus "as good or better than Jesus." She corresponded with Rousseau, whom she deemed to have known few fine women. She read Toland, Tindal, Hume, Locke, Grey, Campion, Herrick, Pope and Shakespeare, among others, never without intelligent commentary. On a pamphlet by John Woolman, the Quaker, noted that he had "used B. Franklin and D. Hall of Philadelphia" as his printers. "A new book," she said, "is always the event of the week...
...Theodore Rousseau, Director of the Paris branch of the Guaranty Trust Co. of Manhattan, waited one afternoon last week at the Gare du Lyons, Paris. In puffed a train. Out jumped a man both lean and spry. While porters panted, he sprinted with M. Rousseau for the latter's limousine, distanced newsgatherers, photographers. Then for a few days Secretary Mellon of the U. S. Treasury dwelt on the ancient Ile St. Louis, hard by Notre Dame, surrounded by the muddy Seine, ensconced at the venerable and opulent mansion of M. Rousseau whom the Secretary is said to address...
...anything but enjoy himself. He purchased outrageously hued pajamas in the Rue de la Paix. He motored innocuously in the Bois de Boulogne. He even "saw sights." Only once could it be discovered that he "dined in conference." Even that was a mere luncheon at the home of M. Rousseau, attended by two U. S. financiers: Benjamin Strong, Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank and Dwight W. Morrow of J. P. Morgan & Co. Finally Mr. Mellon dropped in at the U. S. Embassy and was reminded of a duty by able Chargé d'Affaires Sheldon Whitehouse. Mr. Whitehouse...