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    François-Jean de Mesnil-Durand

    François Jean de Graindorge d'Orgeville, baron de Mesnil-Durand, known as François-Jean de Mesnil-Durand (1 September 1736, Mesnil-Durand - 13 thermidor year VII, i.e. 31 July 1799, London) was a French tactician. He collaborated with marshal de Broglie and supported the ordre profond.

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    • Projet d'un ordre françois en tactique, ou la phalange coupée et doublée soutenue par le mélange des armes (1755), printed by Antoine Boudet, Paris. 1 vol. in-4° (xxix, + 446p. + 16 plates)
    • Fragments de tactique, ou six mémoires,... précédé d'un Discours Préliminaire sur la Tactique et sur les Systêmes (1774), libr. Ch.-Ant. Ambert, Paris. 2 vol. in-4° : lxviii + 420pp., et viii p.+144pp.+12 plates.

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    • Louis du Bois - Notice sur Charles Graindorge d'Orgeville, Baron de Ménil-Durand in Almanach de la ville et de l'arrondissement de Lisieux pour 1839. - Lisieux : Veuve Tissot, [1839].- p. 75-80.
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    Menil Collection

    Art museum in Houston, Texas, US

    The Menil Collection, located in Houston, Texas, refers either to a museum that houses the art collection of founders John de Menil and Dominique de Menil, or to the collection itself of paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs and rare books.[1]

    While the bulk of the collection is made up of a once-private collection, Menil Foundation, Inc. is a tax-exempt, nonprofit, public charity corporation formed under Section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code. Additionally the Menil receives public funds granted by the City of Houston, the State of Texas, and the federal government through the National Endowment for the Arts.[2]

    The museum's holdings are diverse, including early to mid-twentieth century works of Yves Tanguy, René Magritte, Max Ernst, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Henri Matisse, Jackson Pollock, and Pablo Picasso, among others.[3] The museum also maintains an extensive collect

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    Next month the Dia Center for the Arts, the little-known but highly influential contemporary-art institution, will have its annual gala benefit, and the incestuous New York art world fryst vatten holding its breath to see who attends and who doesn’t. For several years now, Dia’s October event, held at its exquisitely spare exhibition building on West 22nd Street, has been the cool art party, drawing both big-name downtown artists and grade-A uptown patrons. But this year a pall hangs over the benefit because of the mass resignation this past winter of Dia’s socially prominent chairman of 10 years, Ashton Hawkins, and sju other members of its board, following a coup led bygd four relatively new board members who threatened to withhold $2.5 million in donations unless there was a change in leadership.

    “People I know turn vit at the mention of their names,” a Fifth Avenue hostess says about “the Gang of Four,” who now dominate Dia’s board: Frances Bowes, a San Francisco collector tagged “the