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The article reports that the central panel of an altarpiece discovered at the Kunstmuseum in Basel, Switzerland, was attributed to 16th century painter Noël Bellemare. It mentions that the work "Retable de Philippe de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam" disappeared from the chapel Saint-Nom de Jésus of the church église du Temple (Paris, France) in 1780. The chapel was founded by Philippe de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam in 1530, a prominent member of the Knights Hospitallers. It notes that the panel was donated to the art museum by Emma Louise Staehelin-Burckardt in 1938. Topics include Bellemare's decorative work at the Louvre palace in Paris, his other works including "Adoration des mages," and questions surrounding the date when De Villiers de L'Isle-Adam commissioned the altarpiece.

The article discusses the discovery of a note conserved at the French national library Bibliothèque nationale de France which attributes two stained glass windows created for the Saint-Jean-des-Champs church of Bourges, France, to 16th century French painter and stained glass artist Jean Lécuyer. His ink and watercolor work entitled "Prédication de saint Jean-Baptiste" (1554) is compared to his stained glass windows including the one entitled "Résurrection."

All the Tahitian school children from 3rd to final grade were questioned by an auto-questionnaire in May 1979. 93% replied to the questions asked (3,870). The prevalence of upper respiratory infections was increased as well as broncho-pulmonary symptoms (cough or other lung disease) during the year under study when compared to a control group in Metropolitan France. This prevalence was significantly increased both in boys and girls who smoked. The incidence of frequent or chronic cough was most increased in the older pupils, boarders, those followed a technical curriculum and belonging to the lower socio-professional categories. Asthma was very frequent at 11.5%, had an equal sex incidence and was not linked to any identifiable factor--the same enquiry was done in the Bas-Rhin department in France 3 years before; Tahitian school children, in general, have double the incidence of respiratory disease that is found in the Bas-Rhin.