Word: fontainebleau
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Karl Bodmer lived the remainder of his life in Barbizon, the artists' colony in the forest of Fontainebleau outside Paris, painting and teaching. One of his protégés was Jean François Millet, and as Millet's fame ascended, Bodmer's diminished. Finally, in need of money, Bodmer was forced to sell part of his collection of Millet drawings and paintings. He died in 1893. His legacy of art was bought from Knoedler this summer by the Northern Natural Gas Co. of Omaha, whose board chairman, John Merriam, is a trustee...
...sixtieth year she took the post of Director of the American observatory at Fontainebleau, outside Paris. There every summer she continues to hold court. During the year when she is not traveling, she stilling cupies her large apartment on Ballu...
...overflow customers were checked into beachside cabanas. Said the Roney Plaza's general manager, Jack Mitchell: "The nearest toilets are halfway down the promenade, so we've equipped each cabana with other arrangements. We're calling it 'The Cot 'n Pot Club.'" The Fontainebleau was embarrassedly forced to house Peace Corpsman Sargent Shriver in a cabana beside the huge pool. Other Fontainebleau guests were roughing it aboard a fleet of yachts and houseboats tethered in nearby Indian Creek...
...once berated him for painting a model with all its deformities. "Nature, my friend, is all right as an element of study," said Gleyre, "but it offers no interest. Style, you see, is everything." By 1864, Renoir, Monet, Sisley and their fellow student Jean Bazille had settled down near Fontainebleau to paint nature as they...
...Defiant Stroke." Before some 346 U.S. journalists at the annual convention of the Sigma Delta Chi professional fraternity in Miami's Fontainebleau Hotel, Rockefeller said: "The only way to avoid nuclear disaster is to command nuclear power, but I must say to you that in terms of this nuclear military power-in both its technical aspects and in our psychological attitude toward it-we, as a nation, stand today in danger...