Word: maximilien
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...superlatives. The object of their admiration was 40-year-old Gertrude O'Brady from Evanston, Ill. She was the protégée of Critic Anatole Jakovsky (Bref), who led the field by burbling: "O'Brady is the only great painter of the New World." Critic Maximilien Gauthier (Opéra) predicted that O'Brady would become a "great name in the history...
...Danton ("I wanted the youth of Paris to arrive in Champagne covered with blood . . ."). People even managed to forget Jean Paul Marat '"When a man lacks everything ... he is justified in cutting another's throat and devouring the palpitating flesh"). But one man they never could forget-Maximilien Marie Isidore de Robespierre, "the sea-green, incorruptible" monster, France's dictator during the Terror...