| In January 1914, Marseille's municipal council, following a vote, appointed two talented artists, Messrs.
Alfred Lombard and Pierre Girieud, to perform frescoes for the decoration of the Faculty of Sciences. - The painters made their models, executed their cartons and were going to start working on the walls when the war called them, in the zone of armies. Left unscathed by the massacre, Messrs. Lombard and Girieud wanted to continue the work begun, but the Marseilles municipality informed them that, since the works had been interrupted, the order fell of itself. After all, they did not have to leave, did they? |