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Claude Monet was 86 when he died: a driven old man, almost blind with cataracts, preyed on by terrible fits of depression. "Age and chagrin have worn me out," he wrote to his friend Georges Clemenceau, former Premier of France. "My life has been nothing but a failure, and all that's left for me to do is to destroy my paintings before I disappear." Painters have often guessed wrong about their achievement; none guessed worse than Monet. He is, in fact, the only Impressionist other than Manet and Seurat whose work has consistently seemed relevant and useful...
Like Georges Clemenceau, who was buried with rites of spartan simplicity in the Vendée 41 years ago, De Gaulle sternly prohibited any trace of pomp. Wrote De Gaulle: "I want no national funeral. Neither President nor Ministers nor Assembly committees nor public authorities." But, he added, "the men and women of France and of other countries may, if they wish, do my memory the honor of accompanying my body to its last resting place...
...parallel to Rapallo, the Italian Riviera resort where the Germans and Russians concluded a friendship treaty in 1922. It was the Rapallo pact that opened the way for the German army to train secretly on Russian territory, an operation that continued into the '30s. Rapallo prompted Georges Clemenceau to warn: "The Germans are becoming independent again...
...Versailles in 1919, the victorious Allied leaders assembled to make the world "safe for democracy." They succeeded only in making it safer for tyranny. The tragic peacemaking efforts of Georges Clemenceau, Lloyd George and Woodrow Wilson are an oft-told story. Yet their means and ends have rarely been presented in so finely detailed and lucid a book as this. The work is all the more remarkable because it was written by a 38-year-old part-time historian who doubles as an executive of a floor-materials company in Elizabeth, N.J. His only previous book: Dare Call It Treason...
...this matrix. In a letter to his first wife, Wilson referred to "the flutter and restlessness" of his spirits. By using the word "flutter," Wilson betrayed a quality "so feminine in its connotations that one should hesitate to employ it to describe a man." When Wilson ascribed to Premier Clemenceau "a kind of feminine mind," Freud-Bullitt call this "clearly an attempt to persuade himself that his own behavior was not feminine by transferring his own attitude to Clemenceau...