Le Soleil (French newspaper) newspaper passed first to Ambroise Rendu and then to Louis Numa Baragnon "fils", who tried in vain to retain its old readers. Ambroise Rendu was a Paris municipal counsellor. In 1901 he bought "Le Moniteur Universel". "Le Soleil" became a popular daily newspaper, costing only 5 centimes, but displeased many royalists by the tone of its articles. The newspaper closed down during World War I, in June 1915. Citations Sources Le Soleil (French newspaper) Le Soleil ("The Sun") was a French daily newspaper. It was founded in 1873 and run by the journalists Édouard Hervé and Jean-Jacques Weiss. "Le Soleil"
Coucher de soleil no. 1 63.8 cm with a similar radiating sun above the bathers. (2) The brushstrokes are smaller in size consistent with Metzinger's style of late 1905. (3) In 1906 and 1907 Metzinger's brushstrokes became larger and more organized, structured within a highly geometrized framework already proto-Cubist in appearance. (4) As its name implies, "Coucher de soleil no. 1" might have been the first in a series of sunsets. Though no other works by Metzinger are known by the titles "Coucher de soleil no. 2" or "No. 3", the artist did produce other works with sunsets during the same period: "Landscape with Fountain",