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...Voyez-vous, rnon enfant," he would exhort a student. "Drawing is the first virtue of a painter. It is the foundation, it is everything: a thing well drawn is always well enough painted." Ingres followed his own advice. His earliest drawing (of a head) was made in 1789, when he was nine. By the time he was 17, he was a pupil in the Paris studio of Napoleon's court painter, Jacques-Louis David, and was contributing sketches for David's Mme. Récamier...
...Said Pierre Mignot, a biology teacher: "His Taylor* system marks the beginning of modern slavery." Paris youngsters (who belong to the jeep, not the tin-Lizzie era) did not even know his name, and many an oldster shuddered at it. Said grey-haired Gaston, headwaiter at Lavrue's: " Voyez-vous, Monsieur Ford gave us speed. In the old days, Parisians drove their four-in-hands around the boulevards at a civilized ten kilometers an hour. That was happiness. Are we to thank M. Ford...
Last week Henri Laurent, a hardware clerk on Paris' fusty southern edge, unburdened his mind. "Voyez vous," said Laurent, "for five long years I stood here and watched the Boche walking arrogantly around my quarter. In those days I never thought I could ever again have a surfeit of democracy. To get out of bed on Sunday morning and walk to the polling booth does not seem a very heavy price to pay for freedom, but the French people are wearying of the process...
...luggage. In the car of friends he rode down into the sea of trees beneath the green waves of which are the paved streets and houses of Boise. Trees, you know, gave the city its name; the French voyageurs, at first sight of the wooded valley, cried, "Voyez le bois." It has remained "the wooded city." Home folks call...
...Mais, voyez," interrupted M. Clemenceau, "I am very much dead. You are already making my funeral oration...