Word: fontainebleau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...studios all over Europe, in Paris, Fontainebleau, Picardy; in Egmont, Holland (whence came many of his best known canvases); in Weimar; in Italy. Since he seldom opened his mail, never left forwarding addresses, friends never knew where to find him. His shirtfront became a flower bed for ribbons-officer of the Legion of Honor, knight of the Order of St. Michael of Bavaria, officer of the Order of the Red Eagle (Prussia), officer of the Grand Ducal Order of the White Falcon of Sacony. In 1914 Gari Melchers prudently removed himself to the land of his birth. His pictures hang...
...Emperor Napoleon, pausing to celebrate one of his perennial triumphs in the midst of carnage was holding a grand reception in Versailles and the splendour of a continent had gathered in homage. Talleyrand was there, with the ironical manner which caused the Emperor to assault him once in Fontainebleau, and the ambassador of Alexander of Russia. To him the Emperor was particularly gracious, for he was planning to betray his master. A nuncio from the Vatican moved remotely amid the revelry. In an ante-chamber the representative of his Brittannic Majesty cooled his heels neglected, anticipating a dozen Waterloos...
Graduated from Princeton in 1925, Baritone Crawford studied for two years with pretty Pianist Nadia Boulanger and Conductor Andre Bloch, on a Walter Damrosch scholarship at Fontainebleau. There he met a student who became his wife and the mother of his child, "Skippy...
Finalist Richard H. Granelli, 25, a self-taught office boy, had won one of the Institute's $500 scholarships last year for study at Fontainebleau. He figured music buildings brought him luck. He figured further that the main problem of an opera house was to get the people in and out quickly. Concentrating on the cloak rooms and taxi driveway, he drank gallons of black coffee, slept on the floor of his cubicle, drew and erased with furious care. There is no telephone in the Bronx home where Finalist Granelli lives with his father, an Italian mosaicist. But last...
...other pupils, on a tour of the U. S. In 1924 he was assigned the task of spreading the Gurdjieff ideas in America. Known by his editorial reputation to a few people in New York, Gurdjieffite Orage soon proselytized scores of the intelligentsia. Americans began to flock to Fontainebleau. But in 1924 an automobile accident almost killed Gurdjieff; he was forced to discontinue the activities of his Institute, took to writing. His book, of biblical proportions, Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson, or an Objective Criticism of the Life of Man, recently completed, was translated from the Russian...