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Chardin

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Chardin (French) [ʃardɛ̃]
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(Biographies / Chardin, Jean-Baptiste Siméon (1699-1779) M, French, ARTS AND CRAFTS: painter) Jean-Baptiste Siméon (ʒɑ̃batist simeɔ̃). 1699- 1779, French still-life and genre painter, noted for his subtle use of scumbled colour


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At the ministry to which Rabourdin belonged there flourished, as general-secretary, a certain Monsieur Clement Chardin des Lupeaulx, one of those men whom the tide of political events sends to the surface for a few years, then engulfs on a stormy night, but whom we find again on a distant shore, tossed up like the carcass of a wrecked ship which still seems to have life in her.
But when Stroeve spoke of Chardin it was not without reason, and she reminded me curiously of that pleasant housewife in her mob-cap and apron whom the great painter has immortalised.
 
 
 
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