| The Orangerie gives hospitality to Pierre Girieud; it is there that they have just been hung for a few days, before their departure to Poitiers, where they will decorate the hall of the Council of the University, the sumptuous panels to which our friend worked two years. The deep culture of Girieud, a feeling of wall decoration that will not surprise those who have experienced the frescoes of Pradines, a balance due to the will, the work, the reason, and a wide execution, free, fiery, this is what which one grasps from the beginning. All this antiquity, these sages, and these heroes, are not bookish, but living. Girieud summed up on these austere and charming pages the best of his immense knowledge. And is not it René Jean who wrote the other morning: "Did these panels report to Pierre Girieud as much as a diorama of the Coloniale?" Let us be happy that a minister has nevertheless been found to command them at Girieud. And may the University of Poitiers evaluate the richness of the gift that is made to him. |