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...Bignou Gallery saw 28 bright-toned, very rudimentary, intensely feminine paintings of gesticulating figures, dreamlike landscapes, surrealistic enigmas, glimpses of children's games. Some of the canvases looked as if they had been painted by the children in them; some were reminiscent of the French primitive, Le Douanier Henri Emilien Rousseau, or of French Modernist Marie Laurencin. Wrote Art Connoisseur Frank Crowninshield in one of the catalogue's two forewords (the other was written by Correspondent John Gunther) : "A curious and evocative order of magic; a gift of divination . . . the feeling of rhythm, or flow...
...marble Algiers mansion General Henri Giraud, Allied protege, waited vainly for Allied help. He had not "accepted" General Charles de Gaulle's decree removing him as Commander in Chief. Now word came that the Gaullist Government had retired him, at full pay to the "reserve command list." Old Soldier Giraud saw that the fight was lost. To his troops he bade a dignified farewell: "Men pass, but France is eternal...
...Abolished General Henri Giraud's post of Commander in Chief and gave him the lesser job of Inspector General of French Armed Forces...
American Story has produced some interesting effects. One was a contemporary account of the 1763 defeat of Pontiac and his Indians by a Swiss Colonel named Henri Bouquet at the Battle of Bushy Run. Wrote the Provost of the College of Philadelphia at the time: "Those who have only experienced the severities and dangers of a campaign in Europe, can scarcely form an idea of what is to be done and endured in an American war. . . . In an American campaign everything is terrible; the face of the country, the climate, the enemy. There is no refreshment for the healthy...
...assorted limbs and 30 pairs of women's shoes. In No. 21's courtyard they dug into a lime-filled pit, hauled up the residue of 13 cadavers. But nowhere did they find the fiend responsible for France's goriest mass murder since whisker-ruffed Henri Désiré Landru, the 1920s' Bluebeard of Gambais, slaughtered ten women...