Has worked in the open at Barbizon, in Normandy, in Cornwall, Devon, London, and all around the east coast of Norfolk.

Remembering that I had friends at Barbizon they had sent the others there by a round-about route, and had come on to find me.

But remember you're on parole!" Outside I explained the situation to George and Leon, and scribbling a note to friends in Barbizon, told the boys to drive over and reassure the othersmake them comfortable at the Clef d'Or, and tell them to expect me that evening.

There's no danger of the Germans reaching Barbizon, I fancy!"

My officer friends very courteously drove me to the hospital where I learned that my poor wounded chasseur Ballandreau had passed away in the night, and towards five o'clock, when their task was completed, they offered me tea and proposed to drive me to Barbizon.

Barbizon was deadliterally deserted, for not a single member of that delightful summer colony remained, several hotels were closed, and the others as empty as in the heart of winter.

ROUSSEAU, PIERRE ÉTIENNE THÉODORE, an eminent French artist, born in Paris; at 19 exhibited in the Salon; slowly won his way to the front as the greatest French landscape painter; in 1848 settled down in Barbizon, in the Forest of Fontainebleau, his favourite sketching ground; his pictures (e. g. "The Alley of Chestnut Trees," "Early Summer Morning") fetch immense prices now (1812-1867).

No!but the Barbizon menand Mother Nature, first and foremost!