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Roger Viollet/Getty Images A folding Kodak camera from the late 1940s.
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Roger Viollet/TopFoto Landowska at her Pleyel harpsichord in Saint-Leu-la-Forêt in 1933.
Remembering the Heroine of the Harpsichord A. J. Goldmann 2011
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Roger Viollet/Getty Images The composer Gioacchino Rossini Now the flute raindrops turn into a birdlike motif for solo flute leading into a beautiful pastorale section in the brighter key of G-major.
The Splendid Start to a Farewell to Opera Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011
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The idea of an opportunity to recuperate the archeological vein, both in music and liturgy, of a past, from which the so called “oxen centuries” (seculi bui) of the Council of Trent separated it … .. in short an archeology which has nothing at all to do with Tradition and which wishes to restore something which maybe never existed, is a bit similar to certain churches restored in the “pseudoromantic” style of Viollet-le-Duc.
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Certainly the classical and Gothic traditions have that aspect, as far back as Vitruvius and as recently as Viollet-le-Duc, though at its best, such mechanics were stepping-stones to something better and wilder.
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Roger Viollet/Getty Images A folding camera from the late 1940s.
Kodak Shutters Camera Business Dana Mattioli 2012
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Roger Viollet/Getty Images A cyclist repairs a wheel by the roadside during the 1965 Tour.
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Roger Viollet/Getty Images A fan offers a helping hand to an unidentified cyclist during a mountain stage of the 1964 Tour.
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Roger Viollet/Getty Images Frenchman Hippolyte Aucouturier poses with a crowd during the 1905 Tour, where he finished second.
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Roger Viollet/Getty Images The peloton rides along the Champs-Elysees during the 1939 Tour.
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