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...controversial exile only increased his natural diffidence with strangers. A profile in the New York Times described him as "wan, distracted . . . gentle-mannered to the point of caricature." Haitians who know Aristide are confounded by such descriptions. "There must be some kind of a cultural misunderstanding," says Guylene Viaud, who worked with Aristide's youth groups in Port-au-Prince. "To us he seems very open. He loves to joke and to make people laugh." Says a close friend: "When he feels secure, he opens up. When he's besieged, he shuts people...
...Paul Viaud as an Admiral is the last canvas that Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec ever worked on-and it is a far cry from his usual coquettes and dancing girls. Viaud was a family friend hired by the Countess de Toulouse-Lautrec to look after her deformed son and keep him away from the bottle. It proved an impossible task. But Lautrec seems to have appreciated Viaud's efforts, and slaved away at his portrait until too weak to stand upright on his maimed legs. It was still unfinished when Lautrec died...
...days later the villagers of Gissac, in Aveyron,noticed the arrival of a strange new doctor and his wife at the small local Catholic hospital. The priests seemed to treat Dr. André Viaud, a spent-looking retired practitioner wearing the beginnings of a scraggly beard, with unusual respect. When a man stopped him on a walk and asked him to look at some peculiar red splotches on his daughter's face, Dr. Viaud failed to oblige. Instead, he hurried back to the hospital and sent one of the other doctors. He even avoided a chat with...
...Viaud, Vincent Auriol spent a year in the Maquis. In October 1943, word came through the underground that he was needed for De Gaulle's consultative assembly at Algiers...
...Professor of English Literature in Tokyo's Imperial University. At that time Western popular knowledge of Japan was still very Gilbert & Sullivan. Lafcadio Hearn took the real Japan to the English-speaking world just as a neurotic French naval officer named Louis Marie Julien Viaud (Pierre Loti) was taking it to France...