Word: xvi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...painting should "contribute forcefully to the education of the public." The French Revolution and its aftermath gave him a chance to paint propaganda pictures for a vast new public, and a brand-new set of heroes and martyrs to portray. David sat in the National Convention, voted for Louis XVI's death, and eventually went into exile because of it, but not until he had tasted glory with Napoleon. Marat, Robespierre and Napoleon might seem a mixed and dubious cast to admire; to David they were all great. And they admired him too; Napoleon once signed a decree reading...
Mirabeau lives in history as the nobleman whose defiance of the king did much to bring on the French Revolution. When Louis XVI ordered the Third Estate to vote separately from the other orders, it was Mirabeau who said: "Go and tell those who sent you that we are here by the will of the people, and that we shall not leave except by force of bayonets...
When his jailer (named Simon just like Louis XVI's) came in to tell him that some tomatoes which had long been ripening in the yard outside were at last growing red, the old Marshal turned on him. "Bah," he snapped, "they are blushing with shame...
...Ceiling-high rows of victims' valises (containing 97 petticoats, 57 pairs of socks, and 97 shirts) failed to shake Petiot. Nor was he perturbed during the court's visit to his fashionable Paris home and ex-slaughter house, where they found a strange conglomeration of expensive Louis XVI furniture, human bones, and 600 volumes of murder mysteries...
...island fortress must always be on its guard against provincialism," Connolly prints French poetry to mix with book reviews, essays on novelist-philosophers, letters from Continental capitals (by such contributors as Clarissa Churchill, Winston's niece), the autobiography of still sprightly Painter Augustus John (now at Installment XVI). In politics Connolly is a Socialist, but (to the bafflement of the literary left) he thinks that is none of his magazine's business...