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...lazuli, that richest of blue minerals, found chiefly in Afghanistan and Siberia, now used almost exclusively for jewelry. Harry Hahn has procured documents from the French national archives proving that lapis, expensive but available during the Renaissance, was unobtainable in 18th Century Paris. One was a letter from Louis XVI's minister at Constantinople to Catherine the Great of Russia begging for some lapis lazuli for his court painter, Duplessis, to which the great Catherine replied that she did not have enough for the Russian court as it was. The Louvre Belle's shadows are of lampblack, characteristic...
Rothschild Foundation. All these things tended to show that the Louvre portrait is not the original Leonardo, as Louvre authorities have long admitted. What Harry Hahn was looking for was some document indicating that his portrait had once belonged to the royal collection of Louis XVI. He found that this winter in the great art library of the Salomon Rothschild Foundation in Paris: a memoir written by an official Louvre expert in 1847 showing that La Belle Ferronnière, which had been one of the King's pictures at Versailles, was sold by Revolutionary Architect General Auguste...
...Hall Mr. Shelley, Sec. 13, 16 Memorial Hall Mr. Stamm, Sec. 10, 11 Memorial Hall Government 24 Emerson 211 History 53a Sever 2 Indic Philology 3 Emerson 211 Sociology 6 Emerson 211 2 P. M. (XVIII) Engin. Sciences 1b Pierce 302 Engin. Sciences 3b Robinson Annex THURSDAY, JUNE 15 (XVI) Economics 7b Harvard 5 Economics 32 Harvard 2 Fine Arts 17a Fogg Small Rm. French 11 Harvard 2 Government 15 Harvard 2 Mathematics 27 Harvard 2 Mineralogy 10 Geol. Mus. 12 2 P. M. (I) English 10a Emerson F Spanish 1 Emerson...
...Louis XVI, amateur watchmaker, once produced an invention of his own in the garden of the Palais-Royal: a cannon rigged with an adjustable burning glass over the touchhole to go off just at noon each sunny day. From 1786 to August 1914, when it was silenced by General Joseph Gallieni lest it frighten war-worried Parisians, the meridian gun barked on. Fortnight ago Minister of Education Anatole de Monzie decided Louis' idea was still a good one. Reconditioned, the meridian gun will bark noon again in the Palais-Royal garden. But since Paris is on daylight saving time...
Conches, long regarded as an expert on the period and now known to have been a forger. About Louis XVI's lack of virility ("In the 18th Century natural things were still regarded with naturalness") Zweig is perfectly explicit, thinks it a strong reason for Louis's inert downfall...