Chant Sous la Pluie

So many foolish people they stand up in the tour bus and I must shout to them, “Asseyez-vous!” It is so when silly silly people say to me, “M. Just, for what do you say the painting of M. Caillebotte is called ‘Chant Sous la Pluie?’ You are so false, so false! And look: that [...]

We Go to Hell with John-Jack

Very naughty people they say to me, “M. Just, why do you pretend as though Jean-Jacques Rousseau is your good friend, eh? Why do you do? Rousseau, he is not your friend. Non! Nor does he go to hell! You are so filled with mistakes! We do not like you! We call you stupid names, [...]

I Go Mad!

Look at me! I am coo-coo for Les Souffles de Cacao! Woo hoo! Woo hoo!
No, no! I only jest with you, my little friends. I have not lost the usefulness of this brain. Ho ho. What you see here is a picture made by the inmates of the Asylum at Charenton under the direction of [...]

Les Pop Art

M. Mao calls me on the phone. He says, “Saint Just! Saint Just! Come at once to New York with me. Mister Warhol wants to paint my face. Maybe he will paint your face also!” Well, this excites me very much so! I fly at once to “the Factory” and I sit very very still, [...]

Holiday for Saint Just

“Where is our good friend, St Just?” I hear you ask. “Where has he gone?” Ho ho. Do not be in a puzzle, little ones. I go on a Holiday, but now I return to laugh with you and sing.
I am most refresh from a week or two with the Shepherds of Arcadia. While I [...]

Marianne, the Woman Symbol

Marianne! Ah, Marianne! She is the most beautiful and desirous woman who is the symbol of all that is in France worth 1 Euro, or 2 Euros, or 5 Euros. Of course you can also combine your Euros to have much worth. Perhaps a thousand thousand Euros! It does not matter: On beautiful French woman [...]

Swim With the Grapes

In my country we argue so much politics, art, philosophy. Yes. Our voices become so high and sometimes we send each other to the guillotine, yes. But one thing there is to which we give accord: wine in the tub.
How we love to eat our cheese and drink our wine while we bob gently in [...]

Adieu, Monette!

Allons, mon enfants, we must bounce now along to many good French delights, but first we take a look over the shoulder one last time to see Monette Monet, the “Soeur Perdue du Claude Monet.” Here I show you now as we leave her famous Qu’est-ce que C’est dans mon Jardin? You can go see [...]

Monette Monet, Woman-Painter

Ho ho! It seems I have touch on some nerves with my little hommage to Monette Monet. So many of you phone me on the telephone to ask, “Tell us more! Tell us more! Who is this Monette? Who is she? Tell us about this Woman-Painter, M. Bust!”
Well, “Okay!” Here is more for you to [...]

Monette, the Forgotten Monet

Tout le monde loves our great painter Claude Monet. Yes? And, who knows, perhaps many of the same monde are much aware his big brother, Manet Monet, as well. Ah, but how many of you know of his petite soeur, Monette, eh? Not very a lot know her, would you say?

This is quite a bit [...]