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    Meissonier  Masterpieces in Colour Series
    Meissonier  Masterpieces in Colour Series
    Meissonier  Masterpieces in Colour Series
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    Meissonier  Masterpieces in Colour Series

    By Henri Barbusse

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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    Henri Barbusse

    Henri Barbusse (1873-1935) was a novelist and member of the French Communist Party. Born in Asnières-sur-Seine, he moved to Paris at 16. There, he published his first book of poems, Pleureuses (1895) and embarked on a career as a novelist and biographer. In 1914, at the age of 41, Barbusse enlisted in the French Army to serve in the First World War, for which he would earn the Croix de guerre. His novel Under Fire (1916) was inspired by his experiences in the war, which scarred him and influenced his decision to become a pacifist. In 1918, he moved to Moscow, where he joined the Bolshevik Party and married a Russian woman. Barbusse briefly returned to France, joining the French Communist Party in 1923, before moving back to Russia to work as a writer whose purpose was to support Bolshevism, illuminate the dangers of capitalism, and inspire revolutionary movements worldwide. In addition to his writing, Barbusse took part in the World Committee Against War and Fascism and the International Youth Congress, as well as worked as an editor for Monde, Progrès Civique, and L’Humanité. His final work was a biography of Joseph Stalin, which appeared in 1936 after his death from pneumonia in Moscow. Buried in Paris, his funeral was attended by a half million mourners. Among his many friends and colleagues were Egon Kisch, Albert Einstein, and Romain Rolland.

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      Meissonier  Masterpieces in Colour Series - Henri Barbusse

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, Meissonier, by Henri Barbusse, Translated by Frederic Taber Cooper

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      Title: Meissonier

      Masterpieces in Colour Series

      Author: Henri Barbusse

      Release Date: July 3, 2013 [eBook #43085]

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      MEISSONIER

      MASTERPIECES

      IN COLOR

      MASTERPIECES

      IN COLOUR

      EDITED BY - -

      M. HENRY ROUJON

      MEISSONIER

      (1815-1891)

      PLATE I.—THE FLUTE-PLAYER

      (In the Musée du Louvre)

      Meissonier’s erudition was such that it enabled him to combine the skill of the artist with the utmost fidelity in details of costume. In the Flute-player, the artist predominates. This figure, with foot slightly raised in the act of beating time, is admirably life-like.

      MEISSONIER

      TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH

      BY FREDERIC TABER COOPER

      ILLUSTRATED WITH EIGHT

      REPRODUCTIONS IN COLOUR

      IN SEMPITERNUM.

      FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY

      NEW YORK—PUBLISHERS

      COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY

      FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY

      May 1912

      THE · PLIMPTON · PRESS

      [W · D · O]

      NORWOOD · MASS · USA

      CONTENTS

      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

      INTRODUCTION

      ONE day—it was neither in war time nor during manoeuvres—on a July morning, with the sun shining radiantly, a squadron of cuirassiers passed at full gallop across a magnificent field of ripening grain, in the neighbourhood of Poissy, although on every side there were wide reaches of fallow land and pasture.

      When this hurricane of horses and men had, like a blazing meteor, devastated and laid low the splendid gold of the crops, two men remained behind, surveying the scene with visible satisfaction and undisguised interest.

      One of the two was tall and the other short. The tall man was Colonel Dupressoir, who had directed the manoeuvre. The other, an elderly man, short of leg, and ruddy of complexion, with a long beard, white and silken, and a singularly expressive eye, was the painter, Meissonier. The latter had achieved his object. Thanks to long insistence and the payment of indemnities, he had brought about the passage of cavalry across that field, in order that he might make studies from nature, needed for a

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