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Despite chills and a cold, Artist Henri Matisse marked his 83rd birthday by working in his studio in Nice...
...French liner Champollion plowed through the squally eastern Mediterranean one day last week on course for Beirut, capital of Lebanon. Aboard were 111 passengers, most of them Christmas pilgrims bound for the Holy Land, and 212 crewmen skippered by Captain Henri Bourde, a taciturn French salt who knows the Levantine seas like the back of his gnarly hand...
Moulin Rouge (Romulus Films; United Artists) is a fictionalized biography of famed French Painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901). The son of a nobleman, Lautrec was crippled in childhood and grew up an ugly, aristocratic dwarf who tried, in cognac and in the brothels and bistros of Paris, to forget the pain in his legs and heart. When he died at 37, after a feverish lifetime that included a sojourn in a madhouse, he left behind him a vivid record of the lower depths of Paris, its harlots and hunted, defeated and disfigured, drawn with artistry, insight and compassion...
...Pinay has outlasted all but two other postwar Premiers: Socialist Paul Ramadier, who survived 302 days in 1947, and Radical (which means conservative) Henri Queuille, the farmers' friend, who lasted 390 days the first time around in 1948-49, but only two days on a second try, 123 days on a third...
...Ursuline nuns who were possessed by The Devils of London. Rome and a Villa, an intellectual love affair that Author Eleanor Clark carried on with the Eternal City, made better reading than all the year's travel books put together. The finest picture book of the year was Henri Carder-Bresson's book of magnificent photographs, The Decisive Moment...