But then he dropped down the memory chute, tough to love unless you were French and inherited a few images by him as part of your cultural baggage, and/or your taste ran toward brainy, chilly, sexually ambiguous, rather louche art.
Zac and Ben Goldsmith inherited French nationality and non-domicile status from their father Sir James Goldsmith.
The trombone, though not used by Schumann through three of the work's five movements, fitted in comfortably with the French horn and inherited some fine solo moments.
He was quick to re-assert the claim to the French throne he inherited from Edward III, continuing what was later called the Hundred Years' War.
The Expressionist portrait was painted in 1911 in the intense contrasted colors inherited from French Fauvism.
But persuading the British and French to surrender their inherited rights in such a forum is nigh-impossible.
After Gallimard's death in 1929, his son, Gaston, the founder of the French publishing empire Gallimard, inherited the painting.
Orphaned within days, Catherine was highly educated, trained, and disciplined by nuns in Florence and Rome and married in 1533 by her uncle, Pope Clement VII, to Henry, duc d'Orléans, who inherited the French crown from his father, Francis I, in April 1547.
This reticence may be one reason why her position as poster girl for French cinema has been inherited by Marion Cotillard and Bérénice Bejo, and why, unlike Cotillard, Tautou has not pursued Hollywood further.
As the art form matured, French cinema in particular inherited Renoir's fascination with the radiance and mutability of the flesh and the mysteries in the folds and textures of the female form.
