PWT 41 2015

WEEKLY TRANSMISSION N째41

A GALLERY OF PORTRAITS

French Radio Studios, 1981

A PICTURE RIDDLE:

THURSDAY 15 OCTOBER 2015

TRANSMISSION 41 CONTENTS : Portraits without caption

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1944

The e-bulletin presents books, albums, photographs and ancient documents as they have been transmitted to actual owners by their creators and by amateurs from past generations.

The physical descriptions, attributions, origins, place and date of printing of books and photographs have been carefully ascertained by collations and comparisons with other prints or comparable samples (from our picture library).

The books and photographs consigned from all around the world are presented in chronological order. It is the privilege of ancient and authentic things to be presented in this fashion, mirroring the flow of ideas and creations.

All the items presented are available at the time of transmission.

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N째41 : A Portrait Gallery

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1856. Albumen cdv, printed 1860s. �Consider how much blood you would have to make for another flag fame! Citizens, for me, the red flag, I am not adopting it, and I'll tell you why I'm against with all the strength of my patriotism.�

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1859. Albumen cdv. "The progress of humanity seems to have come to a halt, and you with your superior intelligence will know why. The reason is that the world lacks a nation which possesses true leadership...�.

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1870. Albumen cdv. “No other statesman of his standing had ever before shown the same great moderation and sound political sense of the possible and desirable...� (William L. Langer).

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1926. Albumen print, 435x320 mm. “Nous sommes débiteurs et vous êtes créanciers. Il semble que ce soit pure affaire de caisse. N'y a-t-il point d'autres considérations à envisager ? …

Si les nations n'étaient que des maisons de commerce, ce sont des comptes de banques qui règleraient le sort du monde … Or, c'est le secret de la comédie qu'il ne s'agit ici que d'échéances fictives pour aboutir à l'emprunt, avec de bonnes hypothèques sur nos biens territoriaux, comme en Turquie … La France n'est pas à vendre, même à ses amis ! “.

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1930. Albumen print, 435x320 mm. “Rok temu z garścią małą ludzi, źle uzbrojonych i źle wyposażonych, rozpocząłem wojnę. Cały świat stanął wtedy do boju. “

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1931. Silver print, 170x130 mm. "I was never a very orthodox socialist...".

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1932. Silver print, 250x205 mm. “She often voiced her goal: to get France out of its rut. She said that Americans had the right idea; they didn't get into a rut...�

(The Economist, 25 January 2003).

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1936. Silver print, 130x185 mm. ”Dans cette heure qui, pour nous tous, est une heure d’anxiété tragique, n’ajoutons pas encore cela à notre douleur et à nos craintes. Sachons nous abstenir des mots qui blessent, des actes qui lèsent... Je vous dis cela parce que c’est sans doute la dernière fois que je m’adresse à beaucoup d’entre vous et parce qu’il faut pourtant que cela soit dit. Les uns et les autres, même séparés, restons des socialistes”.

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1939. Silver print, 170x130 mm. "I will not pretend that, if I had to choose between communism and Nazism, I would choose communism."

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1942. Silver print, 240x180 mm. “Trop fier pour l’intrigue, trop fort pour la médiocrité, trop ambitieux pour être arriviste, il nourrissait en sa solitude une passion de dominer, longuement durcie par la conscience de sa propre valeur, les traverses rencontrées, le mépris qu’il avait des autres...” (Charles de Gaulle).

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1943. Silver print, 240x180 mm. “He was afforded a state funeral in Paris, presided over by Cardinal Suhard in Notre Dame Cathedral. His coffin was placed, surrounded by French flags and flowers, in front of the Hotel de Ville, where thousands filed past to mourn him�. (W.)

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1954. Silver print, 130x180 mm. “Un accord, cela signifie des concessions, de larges concessions, sans aucun doute plus importantes que celles qui auraient été suffisantes naguère.

Et l'écart qui séparera les pertes maintenant inéluctables et celles qui auraient suffi voici trois ou quatre ans mesurera le prix que nous payerons pour nos erreurs impardonnables...”.

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1959. Silver print, 130x90 mm. �In June 1953, he attended the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Seated next to the elderly Princess Marie Bonaparte, he reported having spent much of the ceremony being psychoanalyzed by her.� (W.)

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1968. Silver print, 210x150 mm. “a leader in claims for more sexual freedom... he quickly emerged as a public face of the student protests...� (W.).

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1968. Silver print, 205x300 mm. "L’héritage n’est pas un bien que l’on possède et que l’on garde. Mais quelque chose que les héritiers se disputent, et ce qu’ils en font".

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1969. Silver print, 300x210 mm. "I will finish three books, if God grants me life."

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1979. Silver print, 240x300 mm. �...the treaty was never ratified by the United States Senate.

Its terms were, nonetheless, honored by both sides until it expired� (W.).

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1985. Silver print, 176x270 mm. “In 1985, he resigned from the cabinet in due to his opposition to the introduction of the proportional system for the legislative elections�.

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1990. Silver print, 275x175 mm. "Given the strategic logic of the time, I probably would have acted the same way if I had been a Soviet general. At that time, Soviet political and strategic interests were threatened�.

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1995. Silver print, 175x230 mm. “Vlad Listyev was arguably the most popular journalist and TV anchor in Russia (he remains well remembered years after his death), and was a key force in bringing the voice of democracy to Russian television. Listyev first appeared on television as one of the hosts of a highly progressive and successful show Vzglyad (Glance or Outlook) in the late 1980s, a satirical program watched weekly by as many as 100 million people...on the evening of March 1, 1995, when returning from the live broadcast of his evening show Chas Pik, Listyev was shot dead on the stairs of his apartment building. Valuables and a large sum in cash that Listyev had on him were left untouched, leading the investigators to conclude that the murder was either a political or business-related assassination. However, despite numerous claims made by investigators that the case was close to resolution, neither the gunmen, nor those who ordered the killing, were found... Paul Klebnikov's article "Godfather of the Kremlin?" in Forbes accused Boris Berezovsky of ordering the murder. Berezovsky sued the magazine for libel in British court.� (W.).

Picture Riddle

1856: 1859: 1870: 1926: 1930: 1931: 1932: 1936: 1939: 1942: 1943: 1954: 1965: 1968: 1968: 1969: 1979: 1985: 1990: 1995:

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Key of names

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1856: Alphonse de Lamartine, Paris 1859: Giuseppe Garibaldi, Turin 1870: Bismarck, Ferrières (?)

1926: Georges Clémenceau, Saint-Vincent-sur-Jard 1930: Józef Piłsudski, Near Warsaw 1931: Pierre Laval, Chateldon 1932: Françoise Giroud, Marseilles 1936: Léon Blum, Paris 1939: Winston Churchill, Paris 1942: Philippe Pétain, Orléans 1943: Philippe Henriot, Paris 1954: Pierre Mendès France, Genève 1959: François Miterrand, Paris 1968: Daniel Cohn Bendit, Paris 1968: Alain Krivine, Paris 1969: Charles de Gaulle, Paris 1979: Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev, Vienna 1985: Michel Rocard, Washington 1990: Wojciech Jaruzelski, Warsaw 1995: Boris Yeltsin, Moscow

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1944. Silver print

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