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Fontaine's Academy Award for Best Actress in Suspicion was initially to be sold at an animal rights auction; however, the academy threatened to sue since it was not offered back to them for $1 and Fontaine's estate retained possession. [58] Fontaine converted to Christianity in 1972 after a bleak period. [59]
Renoir painted about 4000 paintings that have sold at auction for as much as $78.1 million (in 1990). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The largest collection of Renoir paintings is at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
Millennium Manor was later purchased on February 21, 1995 at auction for $39,000 by Dean Fontaine. [4] The renovation is an ongoing process. Fontaine completes all work himself, when not working as a Knoxville firefighter and paramedic. Among many of the projects in the works, the gazebo was planned to be reconstructed in the spring/summer of 2011.
Christie's Auction House sold billionaire Jaqui Safra prized collection of Albert Einstein's "Love Letters" at "fire sale" prices to boost profits, court papers allege.
Released in January, this album sold over 300,000 copies in its first month [1] and went gold by May 1968. [2] This was the tenth debut album to top the Billboard 200, [3] and stayed on the top spot from March 16 to April 13.
Fontaine revealed to People that her affair with Joe began soon after he hired her as his personal assistant in 1948. At the time, she was 24 and he was 60. Joe had already been married to his ...
A slightly expanded English version of La Fontaine's fable appeared a quarter century later in Bernard de Mandeville's misleadingly titled Aesop Dress’d (1704). It keeps La Fontaine's title of "The Plague among the Beasts", however, and the socio-economic focus of his moral: "The Fable shews you poor Folk's fate/ Whilst Laws can never reach ...
In La Fontaine's telling, Bertrand the monkey persuades Raton the cat to pull chestnuts from the embers amongst which they are roasting, promising him a share. As the cat scoops them from the fire one by one, burning his paw in the process, the monkey gobbles them up. They are disturbed by a maid entering and the cat gets nothing for its pains. [2]