The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-09-20
THREG NOTED
FaENCHMEH DIE

Within a few weeks. the French peo-
pie nave lost three very famous, per-
haps even great, men. OF these, the
lcsopher, geographer, and anarchist. He
wrote very many. books on science all
distinguished by wonderful style. To
him more than to any other man the
He was one of a remarkab bly, gifted
family, consisting of five brothers and
one sister, all of whom have made their
mark On account of his views, Reclus
was exiled from France, and spent
some time travelling in England, Ire
land, the United States, and South
America. While living in the United
States he married negress. During
the Commune, Reclus served against
the national troops. was captured, i'm
prisoned, condemned to transportation
to a penal colony, and was only saved
from that fate by the petition of
Charles Darwin and other scientific
men of Europe for the Communication OF
the sentence. That the anarchistic
philosophy of Reputation of all author
ity and all interference with the indi-
vidual will was very real with Reclus,
is indicated by the fact that, to tf9
scandal of many of his friends, he pair
ed off his own daughters with the com
panions they had chosen without any
formality of legal marriage. About
Reclus this curious anecdote has found
it's way into print: "A friend, meeting
the aged geographer and anarchist one
day, was astonished to hear the COM
plant: fear my wife is deceiving
me- To his friends wonderment, ne
gave the particulars of his complaint |
against the faithful companion of SO |
many years: I suspect she puts meat
Juice in my spinachn -
In the death of Jean Jacques Henner,
pictorial art suffers a distinct loss For |
more than fifty years he had had a |
studio in Paris near the Place Pigalle. |
and there he died, despite the fact that |
ne was so proud of his Alsatian birth /
hat "Alsatian Painter is the title he |
chose to place beneath the portrait of |
himself in the Uffizi Gallery at Flor
,nce. Henner's early drawing was bold |
ind exact. He then, however, lacked
skill in color. Years passed and, in
1868, he created a tremendous Sensa-
ion with a nude on a black divan,
which marked an era in his art. He
continued to paint these nudes, the
worry flesh tints of which against red
lowing hair and black backgrounds
we're amazingly fascinating. Henner
'ecame known the world over. One of
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aid of him in the obituary: "Henner
,ainted the most beautiful things in
which France has gloried for half a
The trouble was that Hen
er was initiated and counterfeited so
hat the value of his pictures declined.
lie himself is said to have painted as
aany as twelve copies of each of his
ictures $50 there would be Henners
nough for the American market"
William Adolphe Bouguereau is an
Their famous French painter whose
cath occurred very recently. Many | Z
his canvasses are in this country,
here he has had a popularity among 8
realthy picture buyers. Bouguereau
Tas born in 1926, of poor parents, but +
ound am opportunity to study draw
lg, received a prize at the local art &
chool, at twenty-one became a pupil
the famous Pere Picot, received the
rix de Rome when he was twenty
We, and was created a Chevalier of
ne Legion of Honor in 1859, when he &
as thirty-four. His position as presi-
ent of the Salon jury and professor
the Atelier Julien made him very
owerful in the world of art. He was
n uncompromising antag onist of the F
lodern realistic and impressionist
chools. They returned his contempt s
IT their methods with interest-a con-
empt engendered and heightened by
is enormous success. M. Bouguereau,
| 1885, married an American girl, Miss
lizzie Gardiner. of Exeter, N. H, one
his pupils. Owing to the objections
the artists mother the enga cement =
-sted twenty years, only terminating
marriage on her death, aged ninety 4
ne.-The Argonaut.