However, he left a year later after competing unsuccessfully for the Prix de Rome.

但是由于在竞争罗马奖学金时失败，一年后他离开了美术学院。

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Before that, however, in 1830 he won the Prix DE Rome, the prize being a year in Italy to study music.

然而在这以前，他曾于1830年获得罗马大奖，供他去意大利进修音乐一年。

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Mr. Graves has a particular fondness for all things Italian, developed during the two years he lived in Rome after winning the 1960 Prix de Rome, a prestigious art scholarship awarded to architects, artists and musicians.

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Hosted by the French ambassador, the Duc de Nivernais, in one of Rome's more flamboyant palaces, Palazzo Farnese (which is still the French embassy today), these extravagant occasions celebrated the long-awaited birth of the French Dauphin's first son.

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