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In 1968 Shirley Chisholm became the first Black woman elected to the United States Congress. In 1972 she launched a campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, breaking another political barrier.
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Pierre Bonnard (floruit 1680), was a French servant and secretary. He is known for his involvement in the Affair of the Poisons (1677-1682).[1] [2]
Pierre Bonnard was employed as a secretary of François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg. Luxembourg gave Bonnard the task to retake some business document kept by the business agent Dupin. When he failed, he commissioned Adam Lesage to assist him by the help of witchcraft. Lesage in turn assigned the priest Gilles Davot to perform a magic ritual during the mass with a paper containing the signature of Luxembourg. Lesage continued to perform magical services to obtain the document for Bonnard, up until March 1679, when he was arrested.[3]
During the Poison Affair, Luxemburg reported Bonnard himself to the Chambre Ardante for witchcraft, but Louvois dismissed it with the reply that the commission was tasked to handle cases of poison, not sorcery. Luxembourg was advised to dismiss Bonnard, which he did. However, when Lesage testified that Luxembourg had hired the services of Marie Bosse and Marie Vigoreaux to murder a businessman and that Bonnard had acted as his middleman in this transaction, and that Vigoreaux had placed a contract killer in the Luxembourg household to kill his wife on his commission, Bonnard was arrested.[4]
Bonnard was arrested and interrogated and promised lenient treatment if he confessed to the allegations, which he did. During the confrontation between Bonnard and Luxembourg in prison, Luxembourg denied all allegations, and Bonnard retook all of his confessions that implicated his former employer, and claimed that Luxembourg had not been aware of any of his criminal actions.[5]
On 8 May 1680 Pierre Bonnard was sentenced to become a galley slave for life for witchcraft and impiety.
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Pierre Bonnard (French: [pjɛʁ bɔnaʁ]; 3 October 1867 – 23 January 1947) was a French painter, illustrator and printmaker, known especially for the stylized decorative qualities of his paintings and his bold use of color. A founding member of the Post-Impressionist group of avant-garde painters Les Nabis, his early work was strongly influenced by the work of Paul Gauguin, as well as the prints of Hokusai and other Japanese artists. Bonnard was a leading figure in the transition from Impressionism to Modernism. He painted landscapes, urban scenes, portraits and intimate domestic scenes, where the backgrounds, colors and painting style usually took precedence over the subject.
Pierre Bonnard (floruit 1680), was a French servant and secretary. He is known for his involvement in the Affair of the Poisons (1677-1682).
Bonnard, Pierre and Marthe (French: Bonnard, Pierre et Marthe) is a 2023 French film written and directed by Martin Provost. The film depicts the love story and romance between the painter Pierre Bonnard and his wife, model, and muse Marthe. The film stars Cécile de France as Marthe and Vincent Macaigne as Pierre. It had its world premiere in the Cannes Premiere section at the 76th Cannes Film Festival on 21 May 2023. Chronoglogically the film is divided into four parts of the couple's life together [the] "early days", 1914, 1918, and later during the war years in 1942.
The Open Window is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Pierre Bonnard, painted in 1921. Depicting a scene in a room, the painting draws the viewer's focus to the natural landscape outside of the window, away from the figures in the bottom right. The work is housed in The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
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