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Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) was the greatest French artist of the 17th century, the founder of his country's classical school. With him, French painting shook off its provinciality and became a European affair, mirroring the power of its grand siecle, the age of Louis XIV. After Poussin, Rome could no longer condescend to Paris. But without Rome there would have been no Poussin: Rome formed and trained him, gave him his conception of professional life, his myths, his essential subjects, his sensuality and measure -- in short, his pictorial ethos...
...know by now that at the bureaucratized university of the 1980s, they are essentially powerless. The administrators don't care what students think. They don't even want to hear it. Their philosophy--"Je suis I'universite"--is inspired by one of Silber's role models, the late Louis XIV of France...
...ride on a train going the speed of light," he told a group of educators in 1986. "You'd take a biochemistry student and let him experiment in a $5 million DNA wet lab. You'd send a student of 17th century history back to the time of Louis XIV. Next year we will introduce a breakthrough computer ten to 20 times more powerful than what we have today...
...17th century Europe. Spain, thanks to her veteran infantry and American gold, tried to achieve European hegemony, but failed when she could not organize her resources successfully. Next came France's turn as the world's greatest power, but her economy could not support the expensive wars of Louis XIV and later Napoleon. England then assumed control, capturing a vast commercial empire through industrialization and a superior navy...
Goldsmith also still has Ginette, after a fashion. Now 51 and divorced ! since 1978, she lives in one wing of Goldsmith's Tudor-style Paris mansion, originally built for the brother of King Louis XIV. In the other wing of the same estate, across a courtyard bright with impatiens, lives Goldsmith's companion, Laure Boulay de la Meurthe, 36, a slim beauty with waist-length brown hair, and their four-year-old daughter Charlotte. De la Meurthe is the editor of a monthly style section in L'Express, the weekly newsmagazine that Goldsmith controls. There is also Goldsmith's legal...