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...Since then, active and consistent restoration efforts have rid most of the cathedral’s windows and stonework of grime buildup from the past centuries. In order to sustain the program, non-profit organizations like the American Friends of Chartres (AFC), based in New York, and its French counterpart, Chartres Sanctuaire du Monde (CSM), were founded to seek direct, mostly fiscal contribution to accelerate the process...
...years right after 1913 were an anxious time for Matisse. Born in 1869, he entered his mid-40s more visible than ever in the art world, but with work that to the French was still an eyesore. Though for the first time he was making enough money from his art to buy his family a comfortable house in a Paris suburb, much of his income derived from a single Russian patron, Sergei Shchukin, a wealthy merchant willing to fill his drawing room with Matisse's most difficult pictures while Moscow society snickered. (See the top 10 art exhibitions...
BARACK OBAMA, calling for tougher U.N. measures against Iran, during a press conference with French President Nicolas Sarkozy...
McDonald’s fervor for all things French was one of many factors that united her and Rosengarten in matrimony 23 years ago in Montreal. They both love France, and to this day, they say they go regularly—especially to Paris...
France would attract both of them in different ways. A technician and cardiologist, Rosengarten researched human heart-rate variability for two years in Paris and, one summer, worked at French technology company Saunier Duval...