When the painter Jacques-Émile Blanche was introduced to Jeanne Lebaudy, Countess de Fels, heiress to the sugar magnate, she was a little over fifty, and Blanche remarked: "What a pity we did not meet twenty years ago, how I should have liked to…

To which the countess replied: "Surely you have not lost all your talent?"

In the striking portrait in shades of red by Léon Comerre, Jeanne is still an unmarried girl.

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the

Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

When the painter Jacques-Émile Blanche was introduced to Jeanne Lebaudy, Countess de Fels, heiress to the sugar magnate, she was a little over fifty, and Blanche remarked: "What a pity we did not meet twenty years ago, how I should have liked to…

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

Frederic Leighton

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s