Boussoles particulières. Islam as well as in the

as well as in the two centuries that separate us from his death

their pervasive dynamism

Anna Georgiadou

the fossil clam resists degradation over time

Marc Chagall

Boussoles particulières. Islam as well as in theLon Paul Fargue, born in Paris in 1876, became friends with many artists, musicians, and writers who frequented the cabarets of Montmartre. While he became known as a chronicler of the high society and popular life of Paris during the Belle poque, he was above all a poet of tenderness and a restrained lyricism that most often took the form of nostalgia. This love of the past, of the vanished, is found here in the portraits he paints of the great