Word: wagram
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bumper business which he still runs as a sideline. His next venture was putting prizes-cheap necklaces and silk stockings-in boxes of candy sold in Paris theatres. When the Government stopped this, on the ground that it was a lottery, he used the profits to buy the Salle Wagram, where, as an enthusiastic boxing fan, he hoped to improve the bouts...
...littered with Napoleonic shakos, sword belts, sashes, gold epaulets, bits of uniform. In last week's sale were a dozen battle scenes painted with iron hard detail and Noah's Ark color by 19th Century followers of Meissonier and Detaille: cavalry charges, artillery duels, the Battle of Wagram, Franco-Prussian war scenes, Renaissance gallants dueling, George III in full coronation robes, Louis XIV taking all his mistresses for a ride. There was also a barroom nude by Charles Landelle nearly six feet long. The valuable pictures Morosini owned were all 18th Century views of Venice...