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...Cabinet of Premier Edouard Daladier set the date for the next election. On April 5 the members of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate will, according to tradition, travel to Versailles, eleven miles from Paris, constitute themselves into a National Assembly and, in the Palace of Louis XIV, elect by majority vote the 15th President of the Republic...
...citizens opposed to the rule of Adolf Hitler have been formed and are awaiting an opportunity to rise against the Nazi Government." Aroused by this Aryan straight from Europe, the excited Baltimore Kulturverband telegraphed to President Roosevelt a scarcely veiled hint that he might emulate President Wilson, whose XIV Points gave the German masses a rallying ground against Kaiser Wilhelm...
Roaming the Pyrenees in 1922. he arrived at the village of Montespan. ruled for centuries by the Lords of Montespan one of whose ladies achieved fame as the mistress of Louis XIV. Near the ancient castle was a cavern leading into the mountain which the natives assured him was impenetrable after a short distance. Casteret undressed, slipped through a crack not much bigger than his body, waded into a grotto through which an underground stream flowed...
...collection to London, not only hoping for a readier market there but also tempted by Christie's low commission (7½%). Over the block passed Flemish, early German and French paintings, English mezzotints, sketches and water colors by Watteau, Boucher, Fragonard; Gothic, Gobelin and Beauvais tapestries; Louis XIV carpets, Louis XV gueridons, Louis XVI marquetry and console tables; della Robbia terra cottas, Sevres porcelain, Limoges enamels, Ispahan rugs, Italian crystal and marbles, bronzes, Oriental rugs, precious saltcellars, marriage coffers, inkstands, candlesticks...
...artist, for Bernini was the foremost sculptor of his day. He was patronized by a series of Popes, filled Rome with examples of his architecture and sculpture, and he was employed by Charles I of England and Queen Christina of Sweden. He was also invited to France by Louis XIV to do a portrait bust, the fullest expression of the Baroque style in sculpture...