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Seldom in history have scholars risked their skins so recklessly in the pursuit of knowledge. The illustrator Vivant Denon marched 3,000 miles through Upper Egypt with General Desaix. lagging dangerously behind the army to sketch the ruins at Abydos and Tentyra. When he and other pioneer Egyptologists ran out of pencils, they sketched with bullets. The descriptions Denon wrote in his notebook still glow with the sense of wonder the French felt as discoverers of an ancient world...
...Bemelmans. 64, bubbly, urbane caricaturist whose lighthearted paintings and gently satirical books delighted adults and children alike; of cancer of the pancreas; in Manhattan. Son of a Belgian painter and a Bavarian brewer's daughter. Bemelmans worked as a hotel waiter, opened his own restaurant, became a bon vivant and peopled his books and canvases with epileptic Ecuadorian generals, French jewel thieves. American ladies in feather boas, and a Parisian moppet named Madeline. "The purpose of art," he once said, "is to console and amuse-myself, and, I hope, others...
Abderrahmane Fares, 50, is chairman of the twelve-man French-Moslem Provisional Executive charged with responsibility for Algeria's administration and the conduct of the referendum (probably in June) in which Algerians are expected to vote overwhelmingly for "independence in cooperation with France." A rotund bon vivant as fluent in French as Arabic, Fares comes from a Berber family (his father was killed fighting with the French army at Verdun in World War I), and at 25 became the first Moslem notary public in Algeria. After the rebellion began in 1954. the French government sent Fares on a lecture...
...When Bon Vivant Georges Lurcy died in Manhattan in 1953, the Paris-born banker who had prospered as a House of Rothschild protege left an estate that included three houses and a famed art collection. After the bulk of his gallery was auctioned off for $2,200,000, Lurcy's trustees were able to provide a $150,000 annual income for his childless widow, Alice Snow Barbee Lurcy, a former Paris nightclub chorine once described by an art critic friend as "staggeringly beautiful, something between Rubens and Renoir." But last week, after the trust managers had sold her five...
...First Party Secretary. Slow and obstinate in his mental processes, Gheorghiu-Dej is frequently mocked by Rumanians for his ignorance. But, at bottom, his cynical, pleasure-loving countrymen are proud of the fact that Gheorghiu-Dej, alone among the satellite bosses, is famed as a heavy-spending bon vivant and lady killer...