Talk, slides and a personal account under an ancestress's portrait
- Foretaste: Muslim themes, European fantasies and adventure films' refined equivalent
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 - Our hostess's novel
Her grand-daughter is a young opera singer whose career is beginning well. A concert can conclude the event.
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 - A father's portrait
Her great-great-grand-grandfather was Alexander Swoboda, a Hungarian Orientalist painter who in the 1860's travelled throughout the Ottoman Empire with his daughter.
Their voyage led her to write a dramatic historical novel - "I made up the story," she says, "and then I learned that much of what I said was true."
This great-grandmother became a painter herself.
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Portrait of his daughter by Sandor Alexander Swoboda, cover of " The Universe of the Orientalists" by G-G Lemaire, preface by G. Lecambre, Curator of the d'Orsay Museum
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