| The banquet organized by the Librairie de France in honor of Pierre Girieud, on the occasion of his exhibition at the Orangery, brings together, the day before yesterday in the evening, more than three hundred friends and admirers of the painter. This banquet was particularly warm and the good Girieud was quite moved.
Before singing, standing up, the Coupo Santo, in honor of the great Provençal artist, the guests heard Xavier de Magallon praise with lyricism the work and the artist, Mr. Gabriel Mourret and Mr. Robert Rey recall memories and M. Gerardot de Sermoise to say verses. The writers and the painters were very numerous, and the audience composed a rare intellectual elite; Mr. Louis Hautecoeur, Mr. André Dezarrois, who took such a large part in the exhibition, were recognized: Zuloaga, Mr. Guillaume Janneau, Mr. and Mrs. Mario Meunier, Mr. Georges Grappe, Mr. Gabriel Boissy, Mr. Camille Lefèvre, Mr. Paco Durio, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Lombard, Mr. Sant 'Andrea, Mr. and Mrs. Rohozinski, Mr. and Mrs. Kerdyck, the Poisson sculptor, Stival who had drawn a spiritual menu, René Piot, Mr and Mrs. Paul Fort, Albert Erlande, Aron, Fernand Mazade etc. etc.
Retained by the preparation of the Slavonic Glossary of which, it is said, the Academy will forward its famous dictionary Messrs Francis Carco, Roland Dorgeles and Pierre Mac Orlan had apologized. |