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Born 1891 at St. Jean de Braye France [see no.l], the oldest of three children, his father was the town carpenter. Henri was a clever student with a special talent for languages. A scholarship won at age 15 took him to England and another the following year took him to Germany. He became fluent in these languages and also Russian. It was intended that he find a career in business but he had always had an interest in drawing and in 1910 he went to live in Paris where he decuded to be a sculptor.
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大家都听说了曾经繁华的底特律城所遭遇的财务困难问题,这实在令人遗憾,而我唯一担心的是底特律艺术学院(The Detroit Institute of Art),它是美国排名第六的博物馆,以藏有罗丹的雕塑《思想者》和梵高(Van Gogh)、委拉兹开斯(Velazquez)、勃鲁盖尔(Breughel)以及许多其他名人作品而为荣。不要忘记其中也有一些纺织藏品,例如这个《帕里斯的裁判》(the Judgment of Paris)斯图亚特王朝时期的镶板。所以我们既关心又担心这个博物馆未来的命运。从这