Word: moulin
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...more tanks & guns, 3) warships. An appeal would be made to the U.S. to speed up military-aid airplanes. At the same time, General Marcel Alessandri, 65-year-old infantryman, was relieved as commander of the Tonkin area and replaced by General Pierre Georges Boyer de la Tour du Moulin, 63, who has an intimate knowledge of Indo-China and a reputation for energy and aggressiveness. Say his colleagues: "Il a beaucoup de mordant" (He has plenty of bite...
...many seldom-seen glimpses into Renoir's sunny, easygoing world. Unlike some of his contemporaries who were fascinated by life's seamy edges, Renoir doted on what was pretty, could see no reason for painting the drab and bizarre. Even Montmartre's famous dance hall, Le Moulin de la Galette, he peopled with gay, attractive couples instead of the garishly lit libertines and doxies of Toulouse-Lautrec. The landscapes and floral pieces which Renoir did for "mental relaxation" glowed with the pure bright colors which he confidently splashed onto his canvases without even bothering...