![]() ![]() ![]() She details her pregnancy and child-rearing techniques in a refreshingly honest way, claiming that she should have been awarded a medal for managing to be kind at any point during her pregnancy. From family problems, breastfeeding, her experiments with pot in Mexico, and lessons learned in Russia while "major in vodka," Turner is not afraid to voice her private thoughts and never takes herself too seriously. The "controlling, compulsively cleaning, wine guzzling" narrator with "neurotic tendencies" explains that anyone who enters a potentially lifelong romantic relationship has made a terrible mistake "akin to jumping onto subway tracks to retrieve a fallen pen." That doesn't apply to her, however, when she meets Mike and realizes that she had "gleefully jumped onto the subway tracks, because I wanted that pen." The two agree to skip children, but eventually have two loving daughters who fill their lives with even more hilarious moments. This sincere, laugh-out-loud confessional from Turner candidly reveals%E2%80%94and revels in%E2%80%94the flaws and dysfunctions of the author and her family. ![]()
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Nach dem Deutsch-Französischen Krieg malte er neben Szenen aus der antiken Mythologie und Geschichte, inspiriert durch die Traditionen seiner Familie, wiederholt Darstellungen von Bildhauerateliers. 1869 stellte er mit der Episode aus dem Untergang von Pompeji erstmals im Pariser Salon aus. Durch seine frühzeitig gezeigte Begabung erhielt er 1867 den Auftrag, für das Giebelfeld einer Kapelle in Marnes ein großes Gemälde der heiligen Dreieinigkeit in Wachsfarben auszuführen. ![]() Mit 16 Jahren besuchte er die École des Beaux-Arts und trat in das Atelier von Isidore Pils ein. His grandfather, who had fought in the Napoleonic Wars, was a wood sculptor. Édouard Joseph Dantan war der Sohn des Bildhauers Antoine Laurent Dantan. Édouard Joseph Dantan was born on 26 August 1848 in Paris. ![]() |