Word: rochefoucauld
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...writing, there was a rich personal flavor, informal yet dignified, unhurried but never verbose. Each issue was a monolog by an unprejudiced ruminative man who was as likely to weave into his discourse some bright strand of slang as some fibrous or silken or homespun thread from Montaigne, La Rochefoucauld, Mark Rutherford, Andrew Marvell...
...Sale of the de la Rochefoucauld tapestries, (Hunt of the Unicorn, price $1,100,000) to John D. Rockefeller...
...glorious relics of the weaver's art are series depicting the "Hunt for the Unicorn," symbol of chastity and immortality. Since 1450 the unicorn has adorned the Castle of Verteuil, home of the Counts of La Rochefoucauld...
...tapestries were exhibited in the Anderson Galleries last November. They returned to Verteuil. Mr. Rockefeller bought them from the present Rochefoucauld, who, the French claim, promised to keep his treasures in France...