Saint-Lazare

The film is filled with felicitous visual inventions: the daily life of the train station, with its massive locomotives and clouds of steam that evoke Claude Monet's painting "La Gare Saint-Lazare"; a storybook Paris though the aerial views sometime look like "Ratatouille"; moving images in an old-fashioned flip book; elaborate drawings generated by the automaton, plus an abundance of movie references and homages to filmmakers.

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Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images WAITING GAME: Commuters waited for a train Tuesday at Paris's Saint-Lazare station as union workers protested against a proposed hike in the retirement age in France.

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One of the most iconic examples is "Derrière la gare Saint-Lazare, Paris, 1932," an image of a man jumping over a puddle, his figure shadowed in the water estimate: €120,000-€180,000.

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The man, who was not identified, was detained southwest of the capital on suspicions of links to a phone-in threat at the Saint-Lazare train station.

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Toulouse Valmorain spent the first years lifting Saint-Lazare from devastation and was unable to travel outside the colony even once.

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Paris comes next, with the Saint-Lazare rail station filled with steam engines belching iridescent smoke, and the city's pastoral environs: the poppy fields and puffy clouds of Argenteuil, the glinting ice floes of the frozen Seine at V é theuil in 1880 and the shimmering river near the village of "Lavacourt" (1880).

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Those Valmorain invited to Saint-Lazare with the intention of regaining, even if briefly, pleasure from the sophisticated conversation that had marked his youthful years in Paris.

'Island Beneath the Sea' 2010

The letter he had received alluded to health problems, and he supposed that it concerned a passing fever, but when he reached Saint-Lazare, after a day's march at a killing pace through a gluttonous and hostile nature, he realized that his father was dying.

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He reduced punishments and hired a veterinarian, who spent two months at Saint-Lazare trying to return the Negroes to some degree of health.

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As the sun set on 12 February 1894, the Café Terminus at the Gare Saint-Lazare was full of young Parisians listening to an orchestra when the music stopped abruptly.

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