See also:

• LEON
• LEON, LUIS PONCE DE (1527-1591)
• LEON, MOSES BEN SI
• LEON, or LEON DE LAS ALDAMAS

LEON ADOLPHE See also:

• LEON ADOLPHE WILLETTE (1857– )

WILLETTE (1857– )  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French painter, illustrator, caricaturist, and lithographer, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in Chalonssur-See also:

• MARNE

Marne . He studied for four years at the Ecole See also:

• DES

des See also:

• BEAUX, CECILIA (1863– )

Beaux-Arts under See also:

• CABANEL, ALEXANDRE (1823-1889)

Cabanel—a training which gave him a unique position among the graphic humorists of See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France . Whether See also:

• COMEDY

comedy or tragedy, dainty triviality or See also:

• POLITICAL

political See also:

• SATIRE (Lat. satira, satura; see below)

satire, his See also:

• WORK

work is See also:

• INSTINCT

instinct with the profound sincerity of the artist . He set See also:

• PIERROT (Ital. Pedrolino)

Pierrot upon a lofty See also:

• PEDESTAL (Fr. piedestal, Ital. piedestallo, foot of a stall)

pedestal among the imaginary heroes of France, and established !Mimi Pinson, frail, lovable, and essentially See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good-hearted, in the affections of the nation . See also:

• WILLETTE, LEON ADOLPHE (1857– )

Willette is at once the See also:

• MODERN

modern See also:

• WATTEAU, ANTOINE (1684-1721)

Watteau of the See also:

• PENCIL (Lat. penicillus, brush, literally little tail)

pencil, and the exponent of sentiments that move the more emotional See also:

• SECTION
• SECTION (Lat. sectio, cutting, secare, to cut)

section of the public . Always a poet, and usually See also:

• GAY, JOHN (1685-1732)
• GAY, MARIE FRANCOISE SOPHIE (1776-1852)
• GAY, WALTER (1856– )

gay, fresh, and delicate, in his presentation of idylls exquisitely dainty and characteristically Gallic, illustrating the more " charming" See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side of love, often pure and sometimes unnecessarily materialistic, Willette frequently reveals himself hitter and fierce, even ferocious, in his hatreds, being a violent though at the same See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time a generous partizan of political ideas, furiously compassionate with love and pity for the See also:

• PEOPLE

people—whether they be ground down under the See also:

• HEEL

heel of political oppression, or are merely the victims of unrequited love, suffering all the pangs of graceful anguish that are born of scornful treatment . There is See also:

• CHARM (through the Fr. from the Lat. carmen, a song)

charm even in his thrilling See also:

• APOTHEOSIS (Gr. aaoOeou)

apotheosis of the See also:

• GUILLOTINE

guillotine, and in the introduction into his caricatures of the figure of See also:

• DEATH

Death itself . The artist was a prolific contributor to the French illustrated See also:

• PRESS (through Fr. presse from Lat. pressare, frequentative of premere, to crush, squeeze, press)

press under the pseudonyms " Cemoi," " Pierrot," " Louison," " Bebe," and " Nox," but more often under his own name . He illustrated Melandri's See also:

• LES

Les Pierrots and Les Giboulles d'avril, and has published his own Pauvre Pierrot and other See also:

• WORKS

works, in which he tells his stories in scenes in the manner of See also:

• BUSCH, JULIUS HERMANN MORITZ (1821-1899)
• BUSCH, WILHELM (1832-1908)

Busch . He decorated several " brasseries artistiques " with See also:

• WALL (O. Eng. weal, weall, Mid. Eng. wal, wane, adapted from Lat. vallum, rampart; the original O. Eng. word for a wall was wag or tenth)
• WALL, RICHARD (1694-1778)

wall-paintings, stained See also:

• GLASS
• GLASS (O.E. glees, cf. Ger. Glas, perhaps derived from an old Teutonic root gla-, a variant of glo-, having the general sense of shining, cf. " glare," " glow ")
• GLASS, STAINED

glass, &c., notably Le Chat noir and La See also:

• PALETTE (the Fr. diminutive of pale, spade, blade of an oar, from Lat. Pala, spade, baker's shovel or peel; cf. pandere, to spread)

Palette d'or, and he painted the highly imaginative See also:

• CEILING (from a verb " to ceil," i.e. to line or cover; of disputed etymology, but apparently connected with Fr. ciel, Lat. caelum, sky)

ceiling for La Cigale See also:

• MUSIC

music See also:

• HALL
• HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
• HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
• HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
• HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
• HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
• HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
• HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
• HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
• HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
• HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
• HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
• HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
• HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
• HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
• HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
• HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
• HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)

hall . His characteristically fantastic " Parce Domine" was shown in the Franco-See also:

• BRITISH

British See also:

• EXHIBITION

Exhibition in 1908 . A remarkable collection of his works was exhibited in 1888 .

His " Valmy" is in the Luxembourg, See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris .