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...miles south of Cognac's red-roofed mansions, the farmers of Segonzac explain why. MAASTRICHT: DANGER! proclaims a French Communist Party poster, but its hammer and sickle has been plastered over with the red-white-and-blue sticker of the far-right National Front, which appropriated the same slogan. The department of Charente, which includes the Cognac area, approved the treaty by a mere 13 votes out of 178,672 cast. Much of the opposition came from farmers. All rural France resented the agricultural-subsidy cutbacks initiated by Brussels, but even though they do not directly affect Charente grape growers...
Rural alienation runs deep. "They signed this complicated treaty without telling anyone," said Michel Forgeron, a Segonzac grape grower whose calloused hands and weathered face attest to a life outdoors. "Now we don't know where we are going." Until recently, he sold the spirits he distilled from 40 acres to Cognac's family firms. Now multinationals such as Seagram and Guinness have moved in: even Monnet's old company was once sold to Germans and then to Britons. "Decision makers in Toronto or Paris do not care whether we live or die," said Forgeron's wife Francine...
Hand-held camera work by Jean de Segonzac combines a pitted, grungy Brooklyn background with a cast of young white ruffians. Gomez has no pretentions of grandeur, which provides "Gravity" with incredible realism, but in the end impedes its cinematic impact...
...interloper, before they learned to fear him. He arrived in Paris to study law in 1890, coming from the insignificant French colony of Reunion Island. He had black blood in his veins. A vast, slow-moving creature like a sloth-though one of his artists, Dunoyer de Segonzac, nastily compared him to a giant ape hanging in the shop entrance-Vollard cultivated a strategy of immobility. He stroked his cat, pretended to doze, listened and said little. "You sleep a lot," was his advice to a fledgling dealer who asked the secret of success...
Died. André Dunoyer de Segonzac, 90, well-known French painter and printmaker; of bronchitis; in Paris. Inspired by Corot and Courbet, the young aristocrat shunned the early 1900s revolutionary experiments of his Fauvist and Cubist Parisian friends and bought a house in the south of France, where he painted gentle, Cézannesque still lifes and landscapes glimmering with the unique southern light. Retaining and refining his style throughout his lifetime, Segonzac won and kept the respect of artists, critics and collectors...