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...atom bomb was the creation of France's long-dead Henri Becquerel, who discovered radioactivity, and the Curies, who discovered radium. It was the creation of Albert Einstein, sitting quietly in an old sweater, keeping his speculative pencil always pointed close to the secrets of physics...
...France- Judge, Henri Donnedieu de Vabres, Professor of Law at the University of Paris; Prosecutor, Minister of Justice François de Menthon (detained by politics in Paris...
...Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain complained that the mountain air at the fortress of Portalet in the Pyrenees was too cold for an old lifer like him. He was moved to the prison colony on the He d'Yeu, in the Bay of Biscay...
...Msgr. Henri Dutoit, Bishop of Arras. In 1941 a German D.N.B. dispatch quoted him as writing in a pastoral letter: "Collaboration is no slavery. ... He who collaborates should not be denied placing his own genius and his own resources at the disposal of the joint effort to enhance the value of this collaboration." Last fall, Bishop Dutoit was seized and sent to an internment camp. It was the first official action, after the liberation, against one of the Roman Catholic hierarchy. ¶ Msgr. Francois Auvity, Bishop of Mende. He recently apologized in a pastoral letter for having advised French youths...
Color is perhaps Henri Matisse's chief claim to fame-he paints with colors that are as loud as a Marine band, as subtly harmonious as a Bach cantata. But "what counts most in a picture," says 76-year-old Matisse, "is drawing and composition." Last week 22 of his black-&-white pen-&-pencil drawings went on view at the Manhattan gallery of his son, Pierre Matisse. It was the first show to come out of France since the war, and it revealed the French master at his joyful best...