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...borrowed. Poussin developed his meticulous classicism in Rome, where he worked most of his life. Philippe de Champaigne moved to Paris from his native Flanders, and a school of naturalists bore the stamp of the Italian Caravaggio. But what the French borrowed they made their own. Under Henri IV (who ruled from 1589 to 1610) and Louis XIII (1610-43), France's artists were free spirits, and they used their freedom well...
...earliest meetings of the North Atlantic pact, Paul Henri Spaak provoked a good deal of laughter by rolling an orange along the conference table to soothe an angry and hungry Sir Stafford Cripps. The idea that prompted him has become a tradition in NATO negotiations: on the ability of its members to settle their differences quickly and without rancor depends the happiness and security of the West...
...HENRI J. BALLERAND Hong Kong
Standing straight as an old Napoleonic musket. France's iron-eyed Navy Captain Philippe Henri Xavier Antoine de Gaulle, 39, only son of France's iron-willed President, took over command of the convoy ship Le Picard in a ceremony...
Dark Roots. What the baroness does in this book is scarcely tangible enough to describe. She dips a branch of memory into the pool of the past until it is crystallized with insights, landscapes, literature, and animals that seem as if painted by Henri Rousseau. Who else, one wonders, would have attained a great reputation as a healer merely by holding a Barua a Soldani, a letter from a king (Denmark's Christian X), to the chest of a young native writhing in agony from a badly fractured leg? As the letter became a relic, stiff with blood...