Word: fontainebleau
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brushed it back with a sweep of fingers, striping his skin with paint. He made up his own technique. If he had to work out problems by arithmetic when artists more carefully groomed used calculus-well and good; he would get his own answer. Not even the school of Fontainebleau could draw from him the tribute of imitation. "If he had been capable of instruction," said the New York Evening Post at the time of his death," he would have been the greatest landscape artist of any period or people." The pictures that he painted with such stormy concentration were...
Another way is to take the student and put him on a boat for Europe. In order to pass the course he must spend his first five weekends at places selected from the following list: Versailles, Fontainebleau, Chantilly, Saint-Denis, Sevres, Troyes, Amiens, Chartres, the battlefields, Rouen. At the close of the "session," he will travel, in company with his fellow aspirants, for four days through the chateau district of Touraine along the Loire. Then, if he passes an examination, he will receive a credit toward his degree. This way of absorbing historical, architectural and decorative studies has never been...
...hunting box built by Louis VII in the latter part of the 12th Century and added to by subsequent kings, which came to be known as the Palais de Fontainebleau, was in danger of being destroyed last week by fire. Yokels, burghers, firemen, policemen, guards, women, children and troops, helped to put out the fire before any material damage had been done...
Madame Sans Gene. Gloria Swanson, husband and all, is back from Paris with this latest, most expensive picture. It is a classic of the French stage and is played before backgrounds of Fontainebleau and Compiegne loaned specially by the Republic. These backgrounds and the costumes are extraordinary. The story cannot match them nor can the performance of the actress. The usually dependable Miss Swanson overplays the little laundress who rose to be a Duchess. She could not remember not to say "ain't" and got herself in trouble with the Princesses, Napoleon's sisters. A great many francs...
...restoration of Rheims Cathedral, palaces of Versailles and Fontainebleau...