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Museum acquisitions
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2024
Portrait of Prizefighter XV
By Rosalba Carriera
In July 2024, picture portrait bring into the light Louis XV as a child near Rosalba Carriera was acquired thanks strengthen the encouragement of Hubert and Mireille Goldschmidt, because of the American Friends rivalry Versailles.
The wellknown Venetian painter Rosalba C
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William Rodarmor
American translator of French literature (born 1942)
William Rodarmor (born June 5, 1942) is an American journalist, adventurer, and translator of French literature. He is notable in the field of literary translation for having won the Lewis Galantière Award from the American Translators Association, and the Albertine Prize.
Rodarmor was born in New York City and pursued a bilingual education in English and French. He briefly practiced law in San Francisco but quickly abandoned it to sail to Tahiti. He then spent the 1970s traveling, mountaineering, and sailing. He took odd jobs and wrote freelance. Sailing in the South Pacific, he met singlehanded sailor and author Bernard Moitessier in Tahiti. This led to Rodarmor's first book translation: Moitessier's round-the-world saga, The Long Way. He would go on to translate over forty more books, including Moitessier's popular Tamata and the Alliance, and a number of books by Gérard de Villiers, Tanguy Viel, and Katherine Pancol.
Rodarmor concurrently pursued a career in journalism, including working as an associate editor for PC World in the late 1980s, and as the managing editor of California Monthly (UC Berkeley's alumni magazine) during the 1990s. In the 2000s he turned again to freelance writin
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Jean Bodin
French jurist and political philosopher (c. 1530–1596)
Jean Bodin (; French:[ʒɑ̃bɔdɛ̃]; c. 1530 – 1596) was a Frenchjurist and political philosopher, member of the Parlement of Paris and professor of law in Toulouse. Bodin lived during the aftermath of the Protestant Reformation and wrote against the background of religious conflict in France. He seemed to be a nominal Catholic throughout his life but was critical of papal authority over governments and there was evidence he may have converted to Protestantism during his time in Geneva.[1][2][3] Known for his theory of sovereignty, he favoured the strong central control of a national monarchy as an antidote to factional strife.
Towards the end of his life he wrote a dialogue among different religions, including representatives of Judaism, Islam and natural theology in which all agreed to coexist in concord, but was not published. He was also an influential writer on demonology,[4] as his later years were spent during the peak of the early modern witch trials.
Life
[edit]Jean Bodin was successively a friar, academic, professional lawyer, and political adviser. An excursion as a politician having proved a failure, he lived out his life as a provincial