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Just once more before his final exile to distant st. Helena. The house was empty then. His former wife, the empress josephine, whose house it was had died. She had kept this room exactly as it had been during their happiest moments together. Here napoleon had enjoyed moments of his greatest triumphs and moments of his greatest creativity. For in the story of art, too, napoleon was an extraordinary catalyst, not merely in the pictures that he commissioned or inspired here in france and in the empire, but throughout europe. For everywhere artists were touched by his aura. Napoleons official arch...

Captioning made possible by the Annenberg Cpb project lot 42. The Claude Monet Nympheas of 1908. £3 million is bid for this lot. I have a bid of £3 million. 3,200,000. 3,500,000. 3,800,000. 4 million. At £4 million now. At £4 million. 4,200,000. 4,400,000. 4,500,000. 4,600,000. The paintings of this period are among the most familiar images in art. The greatness of the artists is a commonplace of western culture. Its yours. But the impressionists started out as radicals. When it was first exhibited, their art was rejected as disturbing, inept, incomprehensible, even immoral. Why were peopl...

Remember was temporarily blocked earlier this week hours after the violence of protouch supporters in the capitol. Final straw tied to a tweet the president wrote yesterday morning in which he said his supporters will have a quote giant voice long into the future and wont be disrespected. Several other Internet Services are also limiting or blocking the president all together. They include facebook, snapchat and paypal. Some of the president s allies call it nothing short of censorship. These Big Tech Companies are too big. They are monopolistic. They dont allow for competition. If they can do...

Evening i want to welcome you. Im howard can tell i have the privilege of being the president and ceo of Andrew Jackson foundation. We are so happy to have you here tonight. Our third history series. Third of our series tonight. I better look at my notes. These informal events, these informal events are intended to offer you glimpses of the United States history as it relates to Andrew Jacksons america and enjoy some excellent line which i see you all are taking advantage of. Or, as i say, with increasing frequency, history always goes better with alcohol. History as we deal with today. Novemb...

Captioning made possible by the Annenberg Cpb project at first, the doctors thought it was sciatica, and then they admitted it was gangrene. The old man suffered greatly those last days, and then, on the 31st of august 1715, the clergy gathered around him, and they began, timidly, to chant the ave maria. All through the night, they carried on chanting. Then, at 8 15 in the morning in the royal bed in the Great Chamber in the center of the palace, louis xiv, the sun king, died, like every man. So wrote a contemporary diarist. Its often said that when louis died, an age died with him. The age of...