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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Nicolas de Staël, 41, Russian-born French semi-abstract painter, who troweled slabs of paint on to canvas to create his famed, richly colored oils; in a leap from his third-floor apartment; in Antibes...
NICOLAS DE STAËL, 41, born in St. Petersburg, son of a Czarist cavalry officer, who paints in heavy slabs of color on the canvas (TIME, March 30, 1953), which he maintains is not abstraction: "I am trying to give as much as possible of myself with a maximum of discipline...
Once the role of women in French literature was limited to giving male writers something to write about. Madame de La Fayette (who in 1678 wrote the first French novel, La Princesse de Clèves), Madame de Staël, George Sand and a handful of other women did write, and very well, but they were exceptions. The greatest exception of all was Colette (1873-1954), one of the finest of all French stylists, whose women were always too good for men, but not good enough to do without them. In the path cleared by Colette, an army...
Both Charlotta von Hardenberg and Madame de Staël had handsome figures, but the only other thing they had in common was Benjamin Constant. Charlotta was sweet and submissive, Madame de Stael brilliant but tyrannical. Constant couldn't make up his mind. Shuttling back and forth between them, the famed French intellectual debated for 15 years over which one he should take and which he should leave. Cécile is his demonstration of how variable a Constant...
...three crashed into the truck at the corner of Franklin and Magazine Sta...