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MAXIMILLIEN NEEDED A MIRACLE…AND THE SHOW MUST GO ON! _______________________________________________

Asking Maximillien if he had ever encountered difficult or embarrassing moments and experiences in life, he smiled, paused for a wile and said “Almost on a daily basis”. But, the experience, he would never forget is the one he had 73 hours before his show opened on stage at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., USA.

“Everything was going so smooth and without any trouble. I had a great team of the most brilliant people in show biz who diligently and with a great love worked for months and months on preparing, designing, overseeing, rehearsing and pre-producing “Marmara The Gypsy: The Story of Baroness Myriam de Rozska”, a world premiere musical melodrama I wrote, composed and directed at the Kennedy Center. We have been rehearsing every single night of the week for almost 3 months in Washington, D.C. and Maryland, and getting ready to open within 2 days. Ms. Sonya Wagner, my musical director, Dr. Evans, the orchestra conductor, Sam Mcloud, the arranger, Marty Rae, the production director, Mrs. Boray of Turkey, the dance choreographer, Peter Fannelli, the Lighting and Special Effects director, Mrs. Tehmina Khan of Pakistan,

the wardrobe and costumes designer, Mrs. Tatiana Demian, the head Make-Up artist, you name it, everybody was pleased and ready to open the show, until an unexpected tragedy hit us all.

A dramatic and most fatal incident that will kill the show and the whole production for good! Two days, before the show opens and while rehearsing for the last time before the on-stage-dress rehearsal, one of the co-stars of the play quit all of a sudden! He just walked out! Being a minor, a 10 year old boy (extremely talented and winner of several awards), his mother was waiting for him in his dressing room. Astonished and confused, I followed the kid to his dressing room…I wanted to know why is he quitting? As soon as I entered the room, his mother approached me just to tell him that her son is quitting unless I pay them more money…right now…this very moment…and cash! Marty Rae followed me, so did other performers. I let only Marty walk in, not anybody else, fearing gossips, rumors, talks, tabloid scandals or simply fearing that this incident may disorganize and confuse my performers. There were hundreds, over 250 dancers, singers, actors and actresses, some of them may not take well the heat. The kid’s mother insisted on cashing more money, that night, 2 days before the show opens on stage.

Marty, a very bright, pragmatic, very diplomatic and experienced director in show business tried to make a deal…to compromise. I categorically refused to make any deal with the kid or his mother! I felt that this was a cheap shot; a betrayal, a threat, a black mail! A stabbing in the back…Politely, I asked the kid and his mother to leave. They did not expect this from me. Marty, with his New York accent said verbatim: ”Maxi, no kid, no show, you know that, what do you want to do now? Where are you going to find another kid…Jesus, we need a professional actor who is a 10 year old! And…if we get lucky and find somebody good, tomorrow let’s say…. how is he going to learn 50 pages of script in one day?! When the curtains hit the deck we are dead meat! Not yet Maxi, not yet…think…think…think big boy…do something…otherwise, hey, we have to start

refunding all those people! My God, Max, it is a sold-out performance! We sold everything!”

Maximillien continues: “I went home that night with a cold fever. I was afraid, furious, chagrined, disappointed, but not totally defeated. I knew, there is no way in the world, one can pull out a professional 10 year old stage actor from under his sleeves, make him memorize 50 pages, appear on stage without rehearsal, at one of the most prestigious theater of the world! The Kennedy Center for God’s sake! All that in 24 hours?! It is IMPOSSIBLE! Nobody can do it. I knew it. But, also knew that miracles happen…I remembered what Napoleon once wrote: “There is no such word as “impossible” in my dictionary”. Of course, I remembered what everybody in show biz says: “THE SHOW MUST GO ON!”. The very next day, at 7:00 am, I began to work on a plan. Nobody knew for sure about the tragedy except Mrs. Wagner, Peter Fannelli (What a Great Guy! The best of the best lights and stage effect designers) and Marty.

At 7:30 am, Mrs. Wagner and Marty showed up. Peter joined us in the library. We sat silently. We did not know what to say to each other. All of a sudden, I froze in time and space….I froze, because an unbelievable idea traveling at the speed of light hit me. I stood up and exploded in laughter and I remember having said this: “I got it…I got the kid…I got the KID! The show goes on.” It is 8:45 am. My secretaries and script assistants,

Cynthia Greaves, Valery Assenjo, Kitty and Ticker just checked in. Boom! I called them at once, asked Marty to tell them what happened…I gave them a few minutes to breath and calm down and VOILA, the crazy idea of mine exploded in the air. I asked everybody in the room to grab a phone and start calling every single drama, acting, performing coach and instructor at any and all local studios, academies, training centers, high schools, nurseries, you name it…call all of them, call all the directors and drama teachers to find out if any of them have a 10 year old kid who can act. We jammed the phone lines.

We called every single school in town. We phoned every single drama teacher in high schools, in colleges and wherever it was possible to find them, but, NO LUCK! It is getting late. It is almost 5: 00 pm. In less than 50 hours, the show must open. The kid’s role is major. The whole story rotates around him. He is the co-star of the play. All of a sudden at exactly 5:15 pm, Valery ran toward me shouting: “Max, I got a kid”, followed by Cynthia, with tears in her eyes, she hardly could say “Monsieur Maximillien, Good News, Merci Dieu, we have somebody but he is too small”. …and a third call came to Kitty…YAP! Another kid was available! I got on the phone and spoke to the three high school drama teachers who are still on the line waiting…and begged them to come over right away after I have briefly explained what had happened to us. They were delighted because, this was a rare opportunity for them and for any of their students to appear on a major theater, especially at the Kennedy Center. Up to this moment, nobody in my office…nobody in the room knew what I was doing. Marty said to me: “So, it’s

okay, you found three kids, they will audition and you chose one, and then what?”

Forty-five minutes later, the three kids showed up with their teachers. I asked each of the teachers to wait with the kid they brought along in a separate room. I asked Cynthia to get me a copy of the script, called Valery and Marty to walk with me in the corridors leading to the rooms where the kids were seated with their drama teachers. Upon arriving at the door of the first room, I asked Cynthia to hand me over the script. I took the script, ripped the very first 15 pages of the script which corresponded to the role the kid was supposed to play in Act One…I gave it to the first kid and told him: “start memorizing those pages! Don’t ask questions”! I continued to room two…ripped another 15 pages and gave them to the kid in room two and told him the same thing: “start memorizing those pages”! I reached the last room and ripped the last remaining 20 pages and gave them to the kid in room 3. Each kid had to memorize only 15 pages! Yes, sir. Just 15 pages! I told every body in the room about my plan…

I knew a kid could memorize 15 pages in 40 hours. And they did. We worked all night long on training those three kids, rehearsing and rehearsing...with Peter Fannelli’s genius, we were able to change the lighting design, gels, filters to avoid any intense and very exposed light spots on 3 DIFFERENT KIDS PLAYING THE SAME ROLE… We called our make-up artists to rush to my office to see what kind of make up those three kids needed to look alike on stage, or at least, not to look “very” different…not look like 3 different kids! I called the costumes assistant designer to arrange, alter or fix the

suits and outfits of the three kids…Thank’s God, we were lucky, all of them had the same height and weight, almost…but, one of the three was noticeably shorter than the others! It took people and some of my associates and one lady who accompanied me to a show on Broadway fifteen years to know what I did to that kid to make him look taller! The very next day, three of them returned to my office for a final conference. They looked good. I felt better. The same day at 7:30 the curtains lifted up. The Show began! The show rolled…Three different kids performed the same role…the same part, as if they were one. And nobody noticed it…nobody knew about it except those who were in my office, and the kids themselves- of course! I think???? I learned it the hard way. Few things in life I dislike. Few things I rebel against. Betrayal, Threats, Ultimatum and Black mail are on the top of my list…

Some fifteen years later, I went to New York to see a Broadway musical. And something hit me. I looked once again at the names of the stars of the show in the program stage bill, laughed, turned to my lady companion and said:” You see this big star…this tall guy on stage… I knew him once upon a time when he was much, much shorter…until I stuffed his shoes with Cynthia’s bra padding and French toast to make him look taller…almost as tall as the two other kids.” She had no clues what I was talking about.

Maximillien’s heart is bigger than the world we live in.He continues to donate so much and so generously to numerous charities, orphanages and organizations for neglected and hungry children, Christian missionaries in Africa, etc. Not only does he contribute to countless charitable and humanitarian causes, Maximillien is a man who gives financially, as well as a man who is not afraid to roll up his sleeves, get his hands dirty and give of his time, from his heart. If Maximillien earns a penny, Maximillien donates a penny.As the homeless line the walks of Wisconsin Avenue and M streets in Washington, D.C., with consideration and respect,

Maximillien was known for personally preparing, cooking and serving 5 star cuisine to his less fortunate friends. On many occasions, at the end of the evening, he would gather those who had set up camp on the near by streets, shivering in the sleet or the snow under a card-board box, to invite them to cross over Key Bridge and spend a dignified night in the comfort of his own home. Twice, he was nearly arrested for automobile theft while driving his Silver Shadow Rolls Royce when a police patrol car signaled him to stop. He did. The police officer approached and asked Maximillien and his passengers (6 or 7 homeless, unshaven, hungry looking guys…) to step outside, one-at-the time. Obviously, the police officer suspected that the driver and the occupants could not possibly be the high profile, class owners of a Rolls Royce! The lot of them, including Max, looked homeless! The truth be told, they were “very” homeless. It goes with out saying that the police officer was absolutely sure that this gang of hoodlums stole the Rolls! Asked by the police officer to show identification,

Maximillien - with a great smile – provided the pertinent documents, some of which were very impressive. You should have seen the look on the face of the officer when he enthusiastically exclaimed: “Man-o-man! Max?! Is that really you?! Hey buddy!!” And so it was off into the night the band of merry gypsies-bandidos went…

AND NOW ENTER THE MAGICAL METAPHYSICAL WORLD OF MAXIMILLIEN AND HIS ART_______

I invite you to stroll through The Gallery of Maximillien de La Croix and allow him to take you along on this journey called life. You will surpass the range and grasp of human experience, reason and belief, as you step into his world - where there is no such thing as the status-quo, the norm, the predictable, the usual, the expected - and join us on his wild adventures, where you will inhale the words on the page, hear the colors sing and see the notes dance. ...

Musing on de La Croix, it takes no conscious effort at all to lose ones' self in the abstract kaleidoscope of his colorful brilliance and many talents. Indeed, de La Croix is an elegant, sophisticated, educated man of exceptional accomplishments...an aristocrat. At first, I could not shake the feeling that de La Croix was some sort of a mystic messenger - a spirit traveler between realms - sent to remind us that our waking world is a hologram - our life, the illusion - and that this experience is meant to be characterized with such vivid brilliance and dazzling authenticity that the reality of our normal waking world is to be transcended and seriously called into question... ...As I pondered, I thought: “Voila! THAT is precisely the true essence of art!!!” de La Croix is a talent who does not do what he does for the fame and the fortune - for him, the accolades are merely "the frosting on the cake" - de La Croix does what he does for the true love of it. As we view his canvases, we are granted entree' and given permission to embrace our illusions, break them down, or switch back-and-forth-and-back again. Gaze through the mirror blue - or more accurately - CRASH through the looking glass - into the essence of the multi-dimensional de La Croix.

Delve deep into his soul and you will find a simple man who desires to be acknowledged, appreciated and respected for who he is, what he thinks and what he feels, in addition to what he does for a living. Clever, witty, charming, fun, wild, unconventional, eccentric, sensitive, kind, gentle, loyal, honest, generous and humble...this is the real man behind the magical canvases.

You are cordially invited to explore moods and states of awareness here that may be new to you. Given the frontiers that you will cross, you may need to open your mind - your imagination - in order to understand what is happening. Explore the ability to sing and weep simultaneously, to find a comfortable place where you are partially in darkness and partially illuminated, or half in shadow and half in sunlight, to laugh uproariously and exclaim "a-ha!" simultaneously, a surge of uncanny intuitions that comes while waking up from sleep or ignorance... Once inside the prism - which enables time to stop, allowing for us a brief glimpse into a rainbow up close you will see places and meet people you may have only imagined in the many facets of your dreams. Though the artist's eyes, hand in hand we will skip

through the ancient streets of Athens or Red Square, feel the salty sea breezes as they gently caress our cheek on the shores of Corsica, smile as we remember Praha and Budapest nights, observe children as they frolic and picnic on a hillside in the South of France and know the serenity of the peaceful Buddhist Monks in prayer.

Simply and succinctly put, to know the man behind the canvases is to feel that the high light of the evening is when Maximillien de La Croix de Lafayette walks into the room - to shine and share - the low point is when the door closes behind him...

I hope that you have enjoyed the journey with me…with father superior at the monastery

of the roses…the three kids on stage…and Maximillien.

An Art Rebel? No doubt, and a great one! Once he wrote “People might think that De La Croix already made a fortune in the art business, so why should he work harder or become more involved in art? The truth is…I carry art in my heart wherever I go. Even, when I am gardening, I touch and feel the beauty and artistic raw shapes of the stones and rocks I work with, that I carry and I lay out around the flowers bed edges in my garden. In those rocks, I see and appreciate the divine art work and immaculate sculpture of nature. There is art wherever you look in the universe, if you care to look, to appreciate and to love.

This is art for me. I rebelled against some of the most visible, powerful, arrogant and snobbish art establishments and a handful of powerful and fancy art dealers, glossy galleries owners and “artistically dangerous and harmful” museums curators, because I am fully aware of their deals and intrigues…and self serving “devotion-image” for the world of art! They made me know every trick, deal and wheel in the art business. If you are not one of them, you will never get a show, you will never sell, you will never be written up in their papers and you…………..will never make it! So many mediocre artists became world famous and so many wonderful talented artists are still unknown and starving to death because of them! I do not need those “chocolat-au-lait” art dealers and wheelers! I was lucky, strong and determined to make it big. I made it my own way, sometime alone,

sometime with a little help and support from my friends, sometime with hard work, pain, hope and despair, determination , other time with sorrow and fear to fail, almost all the time but, I made it big without their help and they dislike me for it! Still, they call on me from time to time and try to strike a deal! I am for the small guy, the small talented artist, the underdog, this great talented unfortunate starving artist on the streets of New York, in the dark alleys of Washington, DC, behind forgotten walls and sleepy pubs in Dublin, in nostalgic narrow romantic streets in Montmartre, this most creative and helpless street artist around the side walk cafes in Paris looking at you every time you pass by him, by his easel, by the wooden old box of brushes and paints he left on the side walk near his apron,

and he wonders why you don’t buy anything from him, because he knows he is good and his paintings are cheap! Why an artist should starve? Don’t tell me “ce sont les risques du métier”. Why artists should have hard time making a living? Why art, acting, dancing, performing, painting, even teaching art, why professions in the art in general are not secure , financially stable? Because those big shots in high places in the artistic ivory towers don’t care! No artist should starve. Especially when one’s has talent, creativity and beauty in the soul, in the way she or he feels, talks, dreams, laughs, cries, welcomes you at the door of her or his house…and especially when she or he talks to the brushes, to the tubes of paints she or he buys only when they are on sale, to the canvas dying to be covered with strokes,

curves, paints, sweat, tears and the smoke of her or his “gitane” cigarettes. Yes, call me a rebel against those “grand seigneurs”. I am not for the fancy arrogant art dealer in an Armani suit at Georges Cinq or at a Manhattan “Petit-Four-Champagne-Art Gallery”. De La Croix continues “ Have you visited lately some of our great modern art museums? If you have, you should know by now just by looking at the mediocre quality of some of the art exhibited there, that something tricky is happening behind doors, that deals are made, and many interests not in the interest of the art have been served.

Just go and look around at those museums. It is alarming. I saw one large canvas exhibited at one of our most prestigious modern art museums in America. This canvas was enormous, almost 20 feet by 15 feet. It had a white background and just one or two black strokes on it. Guess now, how much did they pay for that painting? Over 2 million Dollars! And you do not want me to rebel against them!? Another famous guy in New York just sold last year a 2 feet by 3 feet canvas for over one million Dollars. He just grabbed a stick, dipped it in red, orange and purple colors, drew a few circular lines on the canvas and VOILA, the masterpiece is born. A week later, glowing articles appeared about him in some of our leading newspapers. They hailed the new genius of the modern art…the great abstract artist of the decade. The painting was sold overnight for $1,300.000 !

I do not believe in drilling two three holes in a house paint bucket and swing it over a canvas to make a painting! Some “geniuses” did, and somebody….some big shots in the art community cashed on it. Unfortunately, the so-called “ great artist” did not live long enough to collect! They bought his art for approximately $2,000 and after his death, they sold it for over $2 Millions!…………………………………………… A rebel? Yes, I am. Big time rebel. Rebel against those kind of people!” This was written by de La Croix in 1980. Has he changed? I am not so sure!

For years, he did not paint. He refused to “mingle” with the Martini-Fake French Accent Art Dealers…he turned down all exhibitions offers….he just faded away for years. It took Solange Berthier, his dear friend and Mr. Theodore Marlins, a trusted associate, seven years to convince de La Croix to return to the world of art and paint again. Fortunately, he is back, and he is as active as ever. Yet, he remains cautious, quite distant, and prepared for all kinds of surprises and “deals”! De La Croix repeated to me what once he told Solange Berthier, his dear friend and European agent who sold his work for millions and millions of Dollars worldwide, long time before he came to the United States: “Do you want to become and remain among the wealthiest, the most productive, the happiest and the most successful people in your business? If yes, then, keep low profile, stay cool, don’t let people know much about you, refuse all honors, do not deprive others from their share or a fair competition, and ABOVE ALL stay put and don’t steal the show. Be the world’s most INCOGNITO CALM SILENT STRATEGIST. Count your gold bars in the dark.”

This is exactly what he did with his art business and so many other businesses of his for years and years. Up to now (But No Longer in the Dark…) he remained one of the world’s most successful, silent, cautious, fame “avoiders” and best seller artists on the international market, refusing all kinds of promotion, publicity, propaganda and as he- so correctly and wisely put it- safe and out of “NOISY AND DANGEROUS HIGH TRAFFIC IN THE PUBLIC EYE”. Once you browse through this website, you will find out who in the world’s “who’s who” buys and vividly collects his artwork. You will be amazed. We took the liberty to mention their names under the painting (s) they purchased from de La Croix agents.

His artwork collectors list and the “1979 MVC Roster” include members of royal families, aristocrats, heads of states, tycoons, international superstars, leaders, noted art experts and world celebrities, yet, he managed to remain the wise, calm and “SAFE SUCCESSFUL INCOGNITO SILENT ARTIST/BUSINESSMAN” for a very long time. If you visit the website of the Goldstein Collection and Goldsmith Art Museum Group, you will learn about the fortune, art collectors and dignitaries spend on buying his canvases. The Solange Berthier & Associates/Salon de L’Art Moderne 1999 website once posted/ displayed approximately 350 paintings of De La Croix which were completely sold in a very short time and almost 15 large canvases were silently pre-sold to world’s celebrities before even the show ever started… and everybody knew about it! And nobody knew about it! This is just a glimpse into the confusing, successful and secretive prismatic world of de La Croix’s art.

He does not go to dealers and galleries owners, they come to him.“ When you have the right name,” Solange said “ you get the right deal.” Long time before he arrived to the United States, his agents and art dealers had already sold a large inventory of his artwork worth over 20 million Dollars. Maximillien does not talk much about his art.

Instead, he chooses to talk about subjects very dear to his heart such as: Poetry, theater, music, world travel, American culture, European history, gardening, wisdom and philosophy of the Orient, and particularly about the years he spent studying Zen, Chan, Noi Cun and Flowers Arrangements under his venerable teachers in the Orient ( Sokes, Senseis and Sifus). He is fond of wild life and nature. He has a most affectionate attachment and love toward animals. But, to begin with, I will be sailing on the immense ocean of his other facets, aspects, sides, achievements, publications, adventures, genius and delightful madness of the man. If you are interested in reviewing additional art-work of de La Croix, we do strongly encourage you to visit:

Most certainly. He visited 42 countries, lived and worked in the western and eastern hemispheres for over 15 years.

He wrote a considerable number of books on world culture, characteristic features, qualities, strengths and weaknesses of natives including Americans, the world’s best and worst places and people, their religions, traditions, taboos, universities, way of life and life styles.

For writing and completing his work on socio-politico-philosophical studies and statistics, De La Croix and his correspondents around the globe interviewed over 100, 000 persons for each specific subject and area of study. Those findings, research and analysis on the people of the world appeared in major international best sellers of his, to name a few:

· The Secret Book of Nations: How People in 150 Countries Can and Would Help or Destroy your Life. (The World Today Series). ISBN: 0939877481. 4 editions. Book review provided below.

· The World’s Best and Worst People. (The World Today Series) 2 Volumes. ISBN: 093987749X. 4 editions. Book review provided below.

· The International Book on World Etiquette, Protocol and Refined Manners. ISBN: 0939893274. 3 editions

· How to Understand People Personality and Character Just By Looking at Them: The Art and Science of Understanding and Discovering Friends and Enemies. ISBN: 0939893193. 7 editions. Book review provided below.

· The Book of Nations: The World’s Best and Worst Countries: A Comparative Study of Communities, Societies, Systems, Lifestyles and People Life Worldwide: ISBN: 0939893134. 7 editions. Book review provided below.

· Worldwide Encyclopedia Of Study and Learning Opportunities Abroad. ISBN: 093989307X. 4 editions. Book review provided below.

· The Social Register of Most Prominent and Influential People and Best Establishments in the United States. ISBN: 0939893002. 4 editions. Book review provided below.

Below, you will find some of Maximillien’s books and encyclopedias reviews as posted on various and several websites on the Internet. The following pages were copied/cut/pasted directly from the website of ALL BOOK STORES. COM., while others were taken from “Books in Print” and various sources. They contain very informative synopsis/reviews of the books of Maximillien, and most certainly, they will help us understand the great mind of this man and explore the infinity and immensity of the wealth of his knowledge and the subjects/topics he brought to life or discussed with pragmatic analysis and imposing depth.

His book “The International Book on World Etiquette, Protocol and Refined Manners” is considered as among the world’s best published books in the field, frequently used by diplomats, departments of state and eminent United States Public Speakers and Career/Image Coaches and Consultants. Many consultants used it as an effective training tool for international success. Please check it out at:

In addition, it is frequently used as reference and authoritative training and orientation guide in public speaking and corporate training provided to America Fortune 500 companies.

The United States Library of Congress, the libraries of the United Nations, the libraries, reading rooms and reference/research centers of colleges and universities, as well as the libraries and sales departments of book sellers, books dealers, books distributors and books publishers list, categorize and index BOOKS under different subjects and categories from A to Z, from Astronomy, Art and Archives to Zoology and Zen, and AUTHORS from authors of science fiction to religions, to fiction, to drama to world affairs, you name it………….

There are thousands and thousands of categories, subjects and disciplines under which you will find and locate a book or an author. De La Croix is listed under at least 211 different categories and subjects. It means, those libraries and centers of learning and research listed him and his books under 211 different categories and subjects in their departments,

catalogues and indexes! In brief, this means that he wrote about those 211 fields and subjects! READ MORE ABOUT THIS AT LINK # 24. USEFUL LINKS.

Just by browsing the categories, subjects classification (s) and cataloging files of published authors, writers and books of the Library of Congress, the reference/encyclopedia voluminous work “Books In Print”, Barnes and Noble, AOL, MSN, All the Web, AddAll, Yahoo, Amazon, All Book Stores, Book Finder, Encyclopedias of Authors, etc., one will find de La Croix and De Lafayette’s books listed under 211 categories and subjects, to name a few:

Law, criminal procedures, psychology, forensic psychology, philosophy, domestic relations, divorce and separation, international personality, languages, arts, disciplines, communication, India, Zen, etiquette, protocol, references, French, Latin, colleges, universities, academia, higher education, students, student life, religion, theology, scholars, foreign languages, study aids, dictionaries, encyclopedias, terminology, Great Britain, social science, family and relationships, dating, interpersonal relations, sociology, marriage and family, civilizations, history, politic, biography, autobiography, bibliographies, indexes, societies, political science, civil rights, feminism, feminist theory, theater, international relations, international success, behavior, US 20^th century, love, romance, customs and traditions, anthropology, metaphysics, abstract art, restaurants, cabarets, hospitality….. and casinos!

You have known Maximillien de La Croix as the painter and the artist frequently called and referred to as “MISTRAL”. His talent as painter/artiste is one facet of his multi-dimensional creative world and a fraction of his outstanding accomplishments and spectacular successes in so many fields, businesses and endeavors, sometime closely associated with art and quite often, distant, unrelated and dominantly on the opposite side of the spectrum.

Over 78 glowing articles, reviews and essays on his life, work and impressive accomplishments in several fields appeared in world’s leading newspapers and magazines,

to name a few: The Washington Post, USA Today, Details Magazine, Il Tempo, Paris-Match, The Washingtonian, The Georgetowner, The Washington Courier, The University Reporter, Washington Free Press, Unauthorized Guide to Washington, DC, National Guide to the Best Choices in the Nation, Washington Flyer, Quantas, WHERE Magazine, American Library Association Journal, etc.

De La Croix authored 97 published books, dictionaries, world references and encyclopedias in a wide variety of subjects, fields and disciplines. In addition to his published work, de La Croix wrote, directed and produced a considerable number of musical scores, world premiere musicals and melodramas performed at some of the world’s greatest theaters, including the prestigious “John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts” in Washington, DC, USA.

A world traveler, a renaissance man par excellence, a dramatist and a poet, de La Croix’s name was added by Pierre Millet to the list of France’s 4 greatest contemporary poets which included: St. John Perse, Aragon and Prevert.

His name is mentioned and listed in and referred to in the world’s most respected and authoritative publications, libraries, research and higher learning centers, and reference books/encyclopedias, including but not limited to “THE ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA/BOOKS”, “Books In Print”, Journal of the American Library Association, The United States Library of Congress, Canada National Library, Canada National Archives, The University of Hong Kong, Oxford, University of Virginia, University of Salamanca, Randolph Macon College, George Washington University, Carnegie Foundation, United States Department of Education, The United Nations, you name it. In brief, he has been listed, found, quoted and referenced to in approximately 5,005 documents, public speeches, publications and authoritative centers of research, documentations, reference and learning worldwide. In addition, his name and books were listed in and referred to on approximately 99,000 websites of governments, world organizations, corporations, universities, consultants, public speakers, books distributors, books publishers, book sellers and bookstores worldwide some of which were selected and posted here below.

THE BOOK OF NATIONS: THE WORLD’S BEST AND WORST COUNTRIES: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF COMMUNITIES, SOCIETIES, SYSTEMS, LIFESTYLES AND PEOPLE WORLDWIDE

4- THE DATING PHENOMENON IN THE UNITED STATES: GREAT EXPECTATIONS OR JUSTIFIED DECEPTIONS

6- HOW TO UNDERSTAND PEOPLE PERSONALITY AND CHARACTER JUST BY LOOKING AT THEM: THE ART AND SCIENCE OF UNDERSTANDING AND DISCOVERING FRIENDS AND ENNEMIES

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8- HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM YOUR EX-WIFE’S LAWSUITS: DIVORCE AND LAWYERS IN AMERICA TODAY

9- THE TEN LANGUAGE UNIVERSAL DICTIONARY: HOW TO WRITE IT AND SAY IT IN ARABIC, ENGLISH, FRENCH, GERMAN, GREEK, ITALIAN, JAPANESE, PORTUGUESE, RUSSIAN, SPANISH

11- WHY I HAVE STOPPED BELIEVING IN MEDIUMS AND FORTUNE TELLERS: THE BOOK OF CHARLATANTS

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12- WHAT PEOPLE FROM 140 COUNTRIES THINK ABOUT AMERICAN MEN AND WOMEN: THE UNITED STATES TODAY-PEOPLE, SOCIETY, LIFE: FROM A TO Z

13- NEW APPROACH TO THE METAPHYSICAL CONCEPT OF HUMAN SALVATION IN THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY OF INDIAN RELIGIONS

14- INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COMPARATIVE SLANG AND FOLKLORIC EXPRESSIONS AND IDIOMS

15- ANTHOLOGIE DE LA LITERATURE FRANCAISE: A COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY OF THE FRENCH LITERATURE

16- WHAT FOREIGNERS SHOULD KNOW ABOUT LIBERAL AMERICAN WOMEN: A SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE FEMINISM REVOLUTION IN THE UNITED STATES SINCE 1960 TO PRESENT

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17- LA PENSEE ARABE FACE AU CONTINENT EUROPEAN: THE SOCIO-POLITICO CONFLICT BETWEEN THE ARAB WORLD AND CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN THOUGHT

18- THE SOCIAL REGISTER OF MOST PROMINENT AND INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE AND BEST ESTABLISHMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES: THE HALL OF FAME

21- BEYOND MIND AND BODY: THE PASSIVE INDO-CHINESE SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY AND WAY OF LIFE

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23- THE SECRET BOOK OF NATIONS: HOW PEOPLE IN 150 COUNTRIES CAN AND WOULD HELP OR DESTROY YOU LIFE

25- THE NATIONAL RATING AND RANK ORDER OF COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES IN THE UNITED STATES: PROFILE AND RATING OF LEADING AMERICAN COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES

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26-LAFAYETTE’S ENGLISH-FRENCH LEXICON: HOW TO LEARN 7,000 FRENCH WORDS IN LESS THAN 30 MINUTES

27-NATIONAL REGISTER OF SOCIAL PRESTIGE AND ACADEMIC RATINGS OF AMERICAN COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES

28-HOW TO USE EASY, FANCY FRENCH AND LATIN TO YOUR ADVANTAGE AND IMPRESS OTHERS: THE INTERNATIONAL BLUE BOOK OF REFINED EXPRESSIONS

30-HOW PSYCHOLOGISTS, THERAPISTS AND PSYCHIATRISTS CAN RUIN YOUR LIFE IN COURT OF LAW IN AMERICA

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32-COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO THE BEST ACADEMIC PROGRAMS AND BEST BUYS IN COLLEGE EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES: HOW TO GET A GOOD COLLEGE EDUCATION AT LOW COST

34-HOW YOUR PORTFOLIO CAN EARN YOU AN ACCREDITED COLLEGE DEGREE WITHOUT SETTING FOOT ON CAMPUS

35-HOW TO DEAL WITH A DIFFICULT AND A STUPID BOSS: DON’T LET YOUR EMPLOYER DESTROY YOUR LIFE

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PART TWO: DE LA CROIX, THE CELEBRATED PAINTER AND ART REBEL

PART THREE: DE LA CROIX, A MAN OF THE WORLD, THE EXPERT ON WORLD PROTOCOL AND ETIQUETTE, THE RENAISSANCE MAN, THE THINKER, PHILOSOPHER, AUTHOR AND PROLIFIC WRITER