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  • Félix Faure, the President of France since 1895, dies of a stroke in his office while engaged in sexual activity with his mistress, Marguerite Steinheil.
  • An artist's impression of President Faure's death, as seen by his supporters.
  • A French president, Felix Faure, died in the arms of his mistress Marguerite Steinheil.

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    Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse: 1909-1954 9780241984055, 024198405X

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    Hilary Spurling M AT I S S E T H E M A S T E R A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour, 1909–1954

    Contents Preface CHAPTER ONE • 1909: Paris, Cassis and Cavalière CHAPTER TWO • 1910: Issy-les-Moulineaux, Collioure and Spain CHAPTER THREE • 1911: Seville, Paris, Collioure and Moscow CHAPTER kvartet • 1912–1913: Tangier and Paris CHAPTER FIVE • 1913–1915: Paris and Tangier CHAPTER SIX • 1916–1918: Paris and Nice CHAPTER SEVEN • 1919–1922: Nice, Paris, London and Etretat CHAPTER EIGHT • 1923–1928: Nice and Paris CHAPTER NINE • 1929–1933: Nice, Paris, amerika and Tahiti CHAPTER TEN • 1933–1939: Nice and Paris CHAPTER ELEVEN • 1939–1945: Paris, Nice, Ciboure, St-Gaudens and Vence CHAPTER TWELVE • 1945–1954: Vence, Paris and Nice

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    A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

    Hilary Spurling was born in England and educated at Somerville College, Oxford Universi

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    Der tapfere Soldat is an operetta composed in 1908 by Oscar Straus. It was an adaptation or parody of George Bernard Shaw’s 1894 play Arms and the Man. In this anti-war comedy the hero, a soldier who mocks war, uses his ammunition pouches to carry chocolates rather than cartridges. Therefore, the heroine of the play calls him her chocolate-cream soldier. This has inspired the pejorative use of the term ‘chocolate soldier’ for someone in the military who does not (want to) fight.

    The English version of the operetta, The Chocolate Soldier, went on to international success on Broadway and in London.

    The operetta was adapted for film in 1915 and in 1941. For the 1941 movie only the score by Oscar Straus was kept. The screenplay was based on another comedy because Bernard Shaw did not want to sell the rights, having disapproved of the first version of the operetta which he called “a putrid opéra bouffe in the worst taste of 1860″.

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    1899

    For the TV series, see 1899 (TV series).

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    1899 (MDCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1899th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 899th year of the 2nd millennium, the 99th year of the 19th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1890s decade. As of the start of 1899, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

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    • January 1
    • January 5 – A fierce battle is fought between American troops and Filipino defenders at the town of Pililla on the island of Luzon.
    • January 8 – The Association football club SK Rapid Wien is founded in Vienna.
    • January 9 – After a successful revolt against the Ottoman Empire by the inhabitants of the island of Crete, the area, which joins Greece, gets
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